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The Dutch Wife by Ellen Keith Shines a Spotlight on Forgotten Victims of History
In The Dutch Wife, debut novelist Ellen Keith shines a spotlight on two forgotten victims of history: prostitutes in Nazi…
New books by HNS members, May 2018
Congrats to the following authors on their new releases! If you’ve written a historical novel or nonfiction work published (or…
A Bear Named Cuff: Linda Spalding’s A Reckoning
An author reckons with her family’s checkered antebellum history The cub is one of the vivid characters in Linda Spalding’s…
Philadelphia, 1918: Susan Meissner and Mindy Tarquini on the Influenza Pandemic
Susan Meissner and Mindy Tarquini discuss their new novels The 1918-19 influenza pandemic claimed an estimated 50 million lives worldwide.…
A Supreme Master: Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel, Warlight
Michael Ondaatje needs little introduction. Born in Sri Lanka and partly educated in London before emigrating as a teenager in…
Red Pencil: Christmas at Carnton
In her final Red Pencil column, Cindy Vallar examines the collaboration between author and editor in Tamera Alexander’s Christmas at…
My Dear Hamilton
Co-authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie have written their second colonial American novel about Alexander Hamilton’s wife, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton,…
A New Interest in Cuba?
Claire Morris examines the recent popularity of Cuban settings. It was impossible to miss the travel articles on Cuba. In…
New Voices: Carys Davies, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Tadzio Koelb & Daniela Tully
Introducing us to history’s thrilling hidden stories are debut novelists Carys Davies, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Tadzio Koelb and Daniela Tully.…
Missing from History: Women Composers
To a large extent, women have been written out of history. This seems especially true in the male-dominated world of…
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