American Civil War | American Civil War
Mar.08.2013
My newest title Gettysburg: The True Account of Two Young Heroes in the Greatest Battle of the Civil War (Sky Pony Press, June 1, 2013) was recently reviewed by YA author Sherry Garland and Civil War scholar and author Scott Mingus:
“Gettysburg: The True Account of Two Young Heroes in the Greatest...
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Jan.26.2013
My guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat” is historical romance writer “Holly Bush”
Holly was raised in a house full of books she is a voracious reader of a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction and has been writing all her life. Life delayed her blossoming into the writer that she has become,...
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Jan.01.2013
Montage of President Abraham Lincoln and African Americans during the Civil War.(Library of Congress Public Domain)
Welcome to the first of this special 3-part article series presented in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation:
The fact that an African American sits...
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Nov.21.2012
LINCOLN a film review by Jeanne Powell
Director Stephen Spielberg’s Oscar-worthy film is adapted from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 2005 best-seller, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Tony Kushner’s screenplay is ambitious and successful with a difficult...
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Mar.22.2012
Dr. Allen Malnak is today’s guest on “A Book and a Chat” talking about his debut novel “Hitler’s Silver Box”.
Dr Malnak after a long career in the medical profession retired to Florida, there he read one day about a course in writing fiction where Hollis Alpert, a well known novelist,...
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Mar.08.2012
Jill Limber used to get herself into trouble when she was younger telling stories, however now she gets paid for telling them which just shows you. She has always been an avid reader and into historical novels, falling in love with American history from reading of “Gone with the Wind”. Her...
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Dec.09.2011
I was delighted today when I dropped by Peet's for a tea and book and saw a teaching colleague I had not seen for months. I was even more delighted to hear that he is working on volume two of a Civil War history. That is, our town during the Civil War era. He published the first volume years ago...
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Sep.20.2010
The New York Times has a great story today (Sept. 20) about me and Alvin Parker, descendant of Ely Parker ("Grant's Indian"). Al and I spoke to the Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York (www.cwfmny.org) last week about the Iroquois League, the Seneca heritage and my novel "Grant's...
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May.20.2010
[Reproduced from my blog on Coming To The Table (comingtothetable.org)]
Every so often I look at a sheaf of photocopied deeds, wills and succession papers sent to me by cousins in the south. They represent transactions carried out by my maternal ancestors, involving the lives of the black people...
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Oct.25.2009
Peter Johnson will read from and sign copies of his novel Grant's Indian at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South, New York City, Wednesday, November 4 at 7 PM. New York members are welcome. Please send an e-mail to Peter at johnson_13493@hotmail.com, so he can put you on the guest list.
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