On America’s 50th birthday, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams left us with a nation. July 4, 1826, dawned with celebration. Across the young United States, church bells rang, cannons boomed, […]
Category Archives: History
Four Birthdays of a Nation and We Still Celebrate
As America approaches its 250th birthday next month, I’ve been thinking about birthdays past—not my own, but the birthdays of our nation. What did America look like at fifty? At […]
Revolutionary Reads: 10 Historical Fiction Books to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday
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 […]
The Invention That Shrunk the World
Before the telegraph, news traveled no faster than a horse could run. It is difficult for modern Americans to fully grasp just how isolated cities, towns, and even entire regions […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tariffs: A Tale as Old as Time
In fourteen hundred ninety-two,Columbus sailed the ocean blue… Most of us have recited this rhyme to remember the year of America’s discovery, but how many know the motivation behind Christopher […]
Traversing the Echoes of Time: A Journey Through the Layers of History Along Europe’s Mediterranean Coast
As a historical fiction author, the allure of the past is not just a fleeting interest but a perpetual call. It is the desire to not only uncover stories that […]
