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May 27, 2006 09:25 AM EDT -- I want to encourage all who visit or join this group to introduce themselves and share what interests they have in history.   I'm Cindy and I have always loved history. I graduated with a BA . . . more
January 15, 2006 09:50 PM EST -- John Fawcett's journey began on a freezing night in February 1936, riding the blinds of a crack passenger train. It was to change the 16-year-old's life forever. The son of a prosperous ophthalmologist . . . more
Regency Era Names
by Jennifer N.
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October 24, 2007 01:51 AM EDT -- Earlier today I had gone and done something I'd been putting off: Researching Regency Era names for the adults in my novel, as they would have been born in this era and certainly would not have been . . . more
September 04, 2007 11:17 AM EDT -- From FIRE BELL IN THE NIGHT by Geoffrey Edwards. Copyright © 2007 by Geoffrey Edwards. Reprinted by permission of Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.   ONE June 27, . . . more
July 28, 2006 10:36 AM EDT -- My novella, The Spirit of Christmas, is going to be published. It will be released this Christmas with a tentative date of December 15th. Check out my web site for more information at www.cindykgreen.com. . . . more
June 09, 2006 07:48 AM EDT -- Besides the women supplying the army, seeing to the sick, and boycotting British goods, some actually entered into the ranks with the soldiers fighting side by side with the men. Now, this was not allowed; . . . more
June 06, 2006 02:58 PM EDT -- The outbreak of the American Revolution spurred on great patriotic actions and sentiments. Who can forget Patrick Henry's stirring words in 1775, "Give me liberty or give me death." Men . . . more
June 07, 2006 06:43 PM EDT -- Within the employment of procuring the needed supplies for the Patriot army, women took it upon themselves to begin a fundraising effort. One of the most successful of these ventures took place in Philadelphia. . . . more
September 28, 2006 05:18 PM EDT -- I was browsing through an old copy of To The Finland Station by Edmund Wilson last night and a few lines from Louis Menand's foreword reached out at me, grabbed me by the neck and threw me on the floor. . . . more
June 02, 2008 10:27 AM EDT -- Why don't we know much about history? For nearly twenty years, I have been working on that very troublesome question –and trying to solve the problem by writing and talking to people about . . . more
November 19, 2007 06:51 PM EST --   HOT TOPICS: Monday , November 19, 2007         halo my friends, I am in Costa Rica and  my connection is only for a few minutes so this . . . more
June 09, 2008 10:50 AM EDT -- In AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY , I tell six separate stories, each of which reveals an "untold tale" that your schoolbooks left out. These six stories cover a broad range of our history, . . . more
September 04, 2007 09:31 AM EDT -- Gather member Geoffrey Edwards, the runner up of the original First Chapters competition, earned a publishing contract with Simon & Schuster for his novel Fire Bell in the Night. Now he is on tour . . . more
May 30, 2006 08:26 PM EDT -- This is a question I pose to my history classes at the beginning of every year. What is history? I get many responses - most of them to the effect that it is boring facts. Then I surprise them and say . . . more
December 08, 2006 04:09 PM EST --  This is the first in a series of articles about the riots in 1968 Baltimore and Gov. Spiro T. Agnew's response. Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 1968, a black teenager tossed a brick through . . . more
"The Naked Ones"
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 23 | rating: 10 | comments: 8
July 21, 2006 09:54 PM EDT -- In August of 812 AD the 6th Abbasid Caliph Amin, son of Harun al-Rashid, found himself trapped inside Baghdad, abandoned by his court and besieged by his brother, the soon-to-be-Caliph, Ma'mun. Amin . . . more
Escape Artist
by Lisa Gensheimer
views: 223 | rating: 9.9 | comments: 21
January 17, 2008 09:23 AM EST -- Behind every great magician is ... a woman. Kelly Flavell went through more pantyhose last summer than most women go through in a lifetime. After 414 performances in an eye-popping, big-stage . . . more
August 21, 2006 03:37 AM EDT --   When I lived in the area, this was one of the first places I visited. It's beautiful. The area, George Washinton's plantation & home. Visiting gives you a whole new perspective on . . . more
August 28, 2007 12:27 PM EDT -- In an arguably morbid conversation, my sister and I were discussing our funerals the other day. The two of us are pretty irreverent when it comes to death—this, naturally, drives my parents mad—and . . . more
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