Sam Watkins was a young Confederate private from Tennessee whose vivid memoir of serving in the 1st Tennessee Regiment gives ...

Colin Sheridan is a writer and columnist. A former officer in the Irish Defence Forces he has extensive deployment experience ...

Ambrose Bierce’s collection of satirical definitions, The Devil’s Dictionary , has had many modern imitators, of which ...

Ambrose Bierce was one of the most prominent journalists of the Gilded Age and has since garnered a reputation among the finest American literary minds. A true polymath and prolific wordsmith, ...

A sampler, with apologies to Ambrose Bierce. African Americans: an anthropological abstraction; any ethnic grouping or race that can be deleted from congressional representation; a lost tribe. Audit: ...

Ambrose Bierce was a famous American writer, journalist, and satirist known for his dark humor and clever observations about society and human behavior. Today’s Quote of the Day by Ambrose Bierce ...

I look at my clarinet sometimes and think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know. As Ian Dury might have sung had he played the clarinet, "Hit me with your licorice stick.

Editor's note: seventh in a series on Civil War figures. Ambrose Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists of his time and heralded for his anti-war short story "Chickamauga." ...

Outside a polling station during the state’s primary election, in Cary, North Carolina, on March 3. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private ...

AMBROSE BIERCE: A BIOGRAPHY by Richard O’Connor. 333 pages. Little, Brown. $6.95. THE ENLARGED DEVIL’S DICTIONARY by Ambrose Bierce. 300 pages. Doubleday. $5.95. Late in November of 1913, Ambrose ...

Editor’s note: Glimpses of Vermont’s Past is a weekly history column aimed at the examination of important individuals, moments, objects and places from Vermont history. In 2026, we will look at the ...