American Revolution
The War Before Independence: 1775-1776
America’s Revolution began long before the Declaration was signed, when New England’s militiamen defied Great Britain on April 19, 1775,…
Igniting the American Revolution: 1773-1775
For many today, the American Revolution began on July 4, 1776, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In…
Grimm Patriot
David Arndt’s debut novel, Grimm Patriot, follows young Joseph Grimm, who in 1775 decides to enlist in the newly-formed Continental…
Becoming Valley Forge
In her epic-length novel Becoming Valley Forge, Sheilah Vance dramatizes the horrific depredations experienced by George Washington’s Continental Army as…
Our Own Country
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1772. Eliza Boylston, daughter of a prosperous merchant and his ambitious wife, is anticipating a 16th birthday surrounded…
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…
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