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Writing History ... Tracking Trump's Actions #4 | A Writer of History
Donald Trump and his administration continue to make history. My intent with these posts is to map recent actions of Trump 2.0 against Project 2025. To help with this I use the NY Times list of actions to date and E.T. Parker’s website What Does Project 2025 Say. In three previous posts, I’ve looked at […]
Auschwitz - a stunning exhibit | A Writer of History
Yesterday, at the ROM – Royal Ontario Museum – we visited an exhibit titled Auschwitz. No other word is needed. Words won’t do this exhibit justice, but let me try: stunning, poignant, tear-inducing, heartbreaking, anger, loss, depravity, courage, evil. Many of us have read novels set during WWII. Some of those novels describe aspects of […]
Historical Fiction offers lessons for today | A Writer of History
When writing historical fiction, many authors find a person or a time that intrigues them, a puzzling question of what really happened long ago, an emotional situation that remains relevant to today’s readers, or an issue that is similar to what the world or that author is facing. In November 2022, I wrote a post […]
Writing History - tracking Trump's actions #3 | A Writer of History
Dear all – I’ve been busy this past week driving back to Canada which included a stop in Chicago to see family. However, now back in action and ready to look at two more of Project 2025’s objectives: Declare the President above the law and Weaponize the Department of Justice. It seems to me that […]
Historical Fiction & Women's Achievements | A Writer of History
A date that is commemorated every year in Canada is that of the massacre of 14 women at a Canadian university in Montreal on Dec 6, 1989. Those women were studying engineering. The killer called them feminists. He separated the class into men and women, told the men to leave (which they did), and then […]
Reading historical fiction - a look back | A Writer of History
Since A Writer of History is a blog about ‘reading and writing’ historical fiction, it’s not surprising that I’m a huge fan of the genre. I began in my early teens by borrowing my mother’s picks from the library and reading authors like Georgette Heyer, Rosemary Sutcliff, and Jean Plaidy, then followed those with choices […]
Writing history ... | A Writer of History
On November 11 – an important day of remembrance – I wrote a post titled Seeking Understanding and suggested that we are and will be writing history in a most significant way as Donald Trump takes office for another four-year term. Today, I’d like to continue that theme by beginning to explore Project 2025 – […]