[Editor's note: This blog post originally appeared in Vita Brevis on 1 April 2015.]

News of King Richard III’s reburial last week was interesting,..

I simply love Register style as a way of presenting descendants of a particular ancestor. Chris Child’s recent post made me realize just how much I love it. It is..

Yesterday afternoon, sometime after 2 p.m., Vita Brevis marked a major milestone in the life of a blog with its one-millionth page view. Since it officially launched on 10 January 2014, with Robert Charles Anderson’s Deep Puritan Roots post, Vita Brevis has published..

[Author's note: This series of excerpts from Regina Shober Gray’s diary began here.]

In 2014, I wrote a blog post about the greatness that is J.K. Rowling. My main point was that, as in your own..

[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from Regina Shober Gray’s diary began here.]

I recently stumbled upon a reference to Molly Pitcher, a woman from Pennsylvania who fought with her husband during the Revolutionary War..

Last March, I made the move from Los Angeles to Boston. It was a pretty big change: not just the fact that, for about six months of the year, really cold stuff falls from the sky, but definitely the history, culture, and way of life..

Among the many treasures in the Society’s collection is an extraordinarily well-preserved circa 1847 oil painting by Philip Harry of a grand Boston home that no..