One of my all-time favorite historical works is David Hackett Fischer's "Washington's Crossing," the best account of the campaign of 1776, including the battles of Trenton and Princeton. Fischer has done his homework, including the Hessian archives in Germany, with some interesting results...

As a writer myself I can tell you what people do when they want to contact me. If the writer does not post an email address (which I do with my columns but not feature pieces in other publications), is send the letter to the editor of the magazine and request that it be forwarded to the writer. They...