Spence flew in Thursday night for our long-awaited Epic Research Party of Awesometude. Remember that Stockade Case thing we obsessively researched for an entire semester back in college and were going to write a book about? Well, it’s going to happen. It turns out that the National Archives in DC has all of the original copies of everything used in the trial, so we’re going to spend the next week researching and writing like crazy.

It’s pretty exciting to handle original documents from the 1860s. We’ve spent countless hours reading about the people involved in this crazy trial, and now we’re able to handle papers that they actually wrote on! Better yet, the things they wrote are pretty nuts. My advice: don’t mess with a Reconstruction-era disenfranchised Texan.

Bonus: we get to use locker #41 every day to store our stuff. :-)