American Revolution
The Dutch Girl
A prim schoolmistress with a scandalous secret. A handsome highwayman fighting for romantic ideals. A dangerous spy mission with the…
A Most Civil War
As Greg Parkes quips in the author’s note of his thoroughly enjoyable debut, A Most Civil War, “I couldn’t make this…
Blood of the Oak
In the spring of 1765, the small community of Edentown, New York, led by Sarah Ramsey, is a quiet town…
Twenty-One Heroes
This story of three young people – Katherine Mayhew, Joshua Spencer and Ezra Wright – is set at the dawn…
The Mind of an American Revolutionary
Jon Foyt’s latest novel, The Mind of an American Revolutionary, is on the surface an ungainly amalgam of historical fiction…
In Liberty’s Wake
Editors' choice
In Liberty’s Wake, Alexandra Norland’s remarkably accomplished debut novel, takes a familiar theme in American historical fiction – slavery –…
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
In the history-plus-humor tradition, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States is another smart offering from Sarah Vowell, author of The…
The Devil Take Tomorrow
Ethan Matlock, the dashing, dangerous hero of Gretchen Jeannette’s The Devil Take Tomorrow, is spy for the rebelling American colonies,…
Samantha’s Secret (A More Perfect Union, Book 3)
Betty Bolte continues her winning More Perfect Union series with her latest novel, Samantha’s Secret, in which midwife Samantha McAlester…
Rewinder
Denny Younger is an Eight—one of the lowest social classes in a strictly stratified British society in a timeline where…
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