Anna De Koven Exposes Ranger Flag Hoax
The scholar versus the fraudulent historian
Flags Fraught with Meaning and Confusion
You can tell a lot about people by the flags they fly--or can you?
The Man Who Dug Up John Paul Jones
In "The Admiral and the Ambassador," author Scott Martelle digs in the life of Horace Porter
Baptismal Font Honors Scottish Hero
My retirement fantasy has long been to tour the world in the wake of Revolutionary War Captain John Paul Jones. I picked up this obsession in the late 1990s when I moved my writing office to the carriage house nestled within the wooden gardens of the John Paul Jones House Museum in downtown …
In Search of the Bonhomme Richard
No luck yet in locating the sunken ship of John Paul Jones
Digging Around in Paul Jones’ Cellar
Archaeologists give the Purcell House a careful checkup
Why Fake Flag Legends Abound
All the more reason to teach our kids how to dig for the truth
The Imaginary Adventures of John Paul Jones
Not a dime novel, but a nickel weekly--stirring adventures for boys
In the Fashion of John Paul Jones
Fair enough. Jones was a dandy and insisted on designing his own uniforms.
Clara Lynn’s Ranger Flag Ballad
A heartfelt patriotic poem about a quilting party that never happened
Legend of the Bos’n Allan House
It was only a myth, and then they tore it down, but the postcards are everywhere.