It's Our Anniversary: 15 Years and 200 Posts

It's our blog anniversary! October marks fifteen years since we started the Roving Historian Blog. This morning I put up A Summary History of the 2nd Infantry Division, which was our 200th post. If you've been with us from the start, you know we took a few months off here and there. Mostly to teach high school history and sometimes when we were in the process of moving across the country.

The first post was up on October 27, 2008. Titled "Our Forgotten Duty," I talked about the need to preserve history, particularly recording oral histories. I was mulling the idea then for The Boldest Plan is the Best: The Combat History of the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion during WWII. But first, we kept you up to date on the setting up of archives for the Ballard Locks in Seattle and a volunteer organization to maintain them. Then came the research for the Boldest Plan, which involved interviewing veterans of that unit. After that came the pursuit of local history across the country, teaching, and most recently writing some historical fiction. 

The Roving Historian blog is where we communicate what we are up to personally and what projects are in the works. Like the upcoming nonfiction work on the 503rd PIR in WWII and the release of another fiction book in the Jack Bell series. Stick with us. There's more to come.