Phyllis T. Smith
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
At the age of sixty-six, Thomas Jefferson left the presidency and retired to his beloved home in Monticello. He died,…
A Slave No More: Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
John Washington, a 24-year-old Virginia slave, escaped to Union army lines in 1862. Seventeen-year-old Wallace Turnage ran away five times…
God of Luck
God of Luck is a historical novel set against the backdrop of the trade in Chinese laborers, kidnapped and sold…
The Fall of Rome
Attila is dead. The Western Roman Empire is tottering. As every source of order crumbles, life, already brutish and short,…
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