There is no such thing as history. Facts happen. The First World War happened. But who started it, and why – this is the story we tell ourselves later. It’s an opinion, it doesn’t exist outside the mind of the person writing that history. When I was a kid John… Read More »THE GREAT HISTORY HOAX by Colin Falconer
In the interest of saving the best for last, I’ve graced my last Tito Amato mystery with a plotline that I’ve been keeping in reserve for a long time. Whispers of Vivaldi, to be published in January 2014, features Angeletto, a young male soprano who has taken Naples and Milan… Read More »Eighteenth-century Gender Bending by Beverle Graves Myers
Ever wonder why we study the past? I mean really, what’s the point? It’s over. Done with. Shouldn’t we just move on? I was going to blog about the Siege of Berwick and the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, in relation to my new time travel novel, In the… Read More »Why Understanding the Past Matters by N. Gemini Sasson
I am a trained professional historian. I received a doctorate in history from the University of California, San Diego, in 1982. I then spent nearly thirty years teaching full time at the college level as a professor of U.S. and U.S women’s history. The historical profession expects its practitioners to… Read More »The story in History is important: Why I write historical fiction by M. Louisa Locke
I began studying the American Revolution in earnest about fifteen years ago as background for my series set during the southern theater of the war. Connections between the eighteenth century and the twenty-first century jumped out at me. Military and diplomatic errors and incidents that occurred between opposing regimes during… Read More »The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same by Suzanne Adair