As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday in 2026, it’s the perfect moment to revisit the extraordinary people and events that shaped the nation’s founding. While history books give […]
Author Archives: Sharon Virts
The Telegraph, the Typewriter and Artificial Intelligence
Why Every Generation Thinks the Machines Are Coming for Us Recently, while preparing to submit my latest manuscript, I encountered a curious new requirement from the publisher: a disclosure asking […]
The Civil War and the Birth of the Federal Income Tax
Born of war, normalized by time Before the Civil War, the idea of a federal income tax would have struck most Americans as unnecessary at best, dangerous at worst.The federal […]
Temporary Measures: From Taxes to Tariffs
How ‘crisis’ policies become permanent—and why history reminds us to notice In moments of crisis, nations rarely believe they are making permanent choices. They speak instead in the language of […]
The House That Changed Everything
Celebrating 10 Years of Selma On March 16, my husband and I will celebrate the tenth anniversary of a decision that changed everything in our lives. That was the day […]
Love, Separation, and Survival in the Early 19th Century
Valentines Written in Ink, Faith, and Endurance In the early nineteenth century, love was shaped as much by circumstance as by feeling. Distance, weather, illness, and war were not occasional […]
When Winter Refuses to Behave
From Volcanoes to Climate Change: Snow falls where it shouldn’t—and history reminds us it’s happened before. Winter has been unforgiving this year. Blizzards. Extreme cold. Arctic blasts. Ice that just […]
From Blockades to Blockades: Echoes of 1902 in Today’s Venezuela
History has a way of reminding us that the world we live in is built on long sheets of precedent. As a writer who loves the layers beneath moment-to-moment headlines, […]
The Guest of the Nation: Celebrating Marquis de Lafayette Visit to Leesburg, Virginia
On August 9, 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette made a stop in Leesburg Virginia on the last leg of his farewell tour of the United States, commemorating to fiftieth anniversary […]
The Trouble with Jack
If there’s one character who’s kept me awake at night while writing Masque of Honor and, more recently, in the stories I continue to explore for my Fields of Honor […]
