Be sure to catch an informative interview with J. Gregory Acken, author of Blue-Blooded Cavalryman: Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863–August 1865 on PA Books, PCN Select.
See the interview (subscription required).
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The New York Times has “rounded up some glorious new titles to keep any reader happy, hydrated and cool: pulse-pounding thrillers, delectable cookbooks, eerie true-crime stories to stand your hair on end.”
Amongst the hair raisers is KSUP’s The Belle of Bedford Avenue by Virginia A. McConnell.
“Everybody loves a bad girl — in crime stories, if […]
From Sport in American History:
“Ultimately, Baseball Goes West is a well-organized, accessible presentation of the motivations and factors involved in the relocation of the Dodgers and Giants to California and a survey of the franchises’ histories since the move. It would be most appropriate for baseball fans and provides scholars with numerous topics for further research and […]
Civil War History, the foremost scholarly journal focused on the American Civil War, is expanding its program to make online content available to all interested readers.
The journal, published by the Kent State University Press and overseen by a board of internationally renowned scholars, is well into its seventh decade. “While we continue to have substantial […]
We all have the capacity for the leaping thought of a poem, to be coached in the right way, to find some emotional truth, or to recall a memory that only we can tell. We all have the capacity for a poetic voice. It really becomes a thread that empowers communities and gives them a sense of themselves.
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, historian Peter S. Carmichael has named “This Infernal War”: The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard as one of the five best books on the lives of Civil War Soldiers.
Read more about “This Infernal War”
Kudos from Strand Magazine on Virginia McConnell’s latest book The Bell of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York.
“Ultimately, McConnell does a splendid job of re-creating early twentieth-century New York City and provides the reader with a compelling look at the lives of adolescents with a taste for mayhem and destruction. The […]
Don’t miss this informative interview with Resurrection of the Wild author Deborah Fleming in conjunction with her recent appearance at the Cleveland Heights Public Library.
For those on the go, the audio interview is available from Biblio Radio, WJCU, as well.
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Small Town Big Music author Jason Prufer is interviewed on Black Squirrel Radio.
“‘All stories were triggered by photos. If I didn’t have an artifact, I didn’t go after the story,’ Prufer said. ‘I would say to people look at this photo, what do you see here?’
The people that shared their stories could be temporarily young […]
A Family and Nation Under Fire author Georgiann Baldino writes of “A House Once More Divided” at the History News Network.
“Abraham Lincoln and supporters like Joseph Medill taught that politics must not violate human rights. Immoral behavior must never be subject to a majority vote. Robert Todd Lincoln explained his father’s views on democracy eloquently […]
