HNR Issue 27 (February 2004)
A Thousand Years over a Hot Stove
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Subtitled “A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances,” Schenone examines the foods and food-related traditions of native Americans, early ...Read Review
Wine of Violence
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At 20 years old, Eleanor of Wynethorpe is young to be appointed Prioress of Tyndal, Order of Fontevraud, leader of both the monastery’s ...Read Review
Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction
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When Englishman Daniel Sanborn takes his first portraiture commission in Portsmouth, Virginia, he doesn’t expect his subject, a mere child, to be ...Read Review
Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell
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With this book, Arthur Conan Doyle joins the ranks of authors as detectives, but unlike Jane Austen et al., Conan Doyle seems more ...Read Review
Touches the Sky
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In the late 1880s, a Paiute Indian known as Wovoka proclaimed that if Indians performed “ghost dances” and other ceremonies, they would be ...Read Review
Prairie Nocturne
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Susan Duff and Wesley Williamson share a past romance and the landscape of their youth. By 1924, ten years have smoothed the rougher edges ...Read Review
Julia’s Hope
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Kelly’s first book and its sequel (Julia’s Hope and Emma’s Gift) tell of the struggles of the Wortham family in ...Read Review
The Last Mile of the Way
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The third and final volume of the Stand on the Promises trilogy covers the period from the 1890s to the present. The saga ...Read Review
Tilt: A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa
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This book, which cleverly physically tilts in the manner of its subject, is a lucid and engaging history of the famous tower, including ...Read Review
Beauchamp Besieged
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In 1200 Ceridwen ap Morgan’s father arranges for her to wed her enemy, an English knight. She’d rather not, but there is ...Read Review
