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Newport Historical Society Paper Citizens at Sea: Sailor Protection Certificates - Newport Historical Society
This is a guest blog post by Maureen Iplenski, MA/PhD in History, American Studies, Certificate in Museum Studies (expected 2026) University of Delaware. Maureen was a 2022 NHS Buchanan Burnham Fellow, contributing towards the “BIPOC Biographies from the Archives of the Newport Historical Society” initiative. On March 5, 1810, David Smith, an African American sailor, […]
Cover Reveal: Madame Pommery by Rebecca Rosenberg - Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours
Madame Pommery by Rebecca Rosenberg Publication Date: March 21, 2023 Lion Heart Publishing Genre: Historical Fiction Champagne, France, 1860. Madame Pommery, an etiquette teacher and orphanage founder, loses her husband and is forced to support her family. With no experience, the forty-year-old widow decides to make champagne. Her unique vision is to change […]
Collections: The Nitpicks of Power, Part II: Falling Towers – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
This is the second part of our look at many of the smaller issues of historical realism in Amazon's Rings of Power, following on our more substantive discussion of the major worldbuilding problems the show experienced. I had hoped to keep this at two parts (actually, I had hoped this would just be a one-off…
Today, I’m delighted to welcome Isabella Muir and her new novel, A Notable Omission, to the blog with a fab post about historical research #blogtour – M J Porter
A Notable Omission is the seventh novel from Isabella Muir – all of them set during the 1960s and 1970s. Here Isabella Muir provides some insight into one particular resource that helped her set the story in this particular historical period... Having fun with historical research Online research is fun, of course, but right now I’m saying…
Today, it’s my turn on the #blogtour for Jane Dunn’s new historical romance, The Marriage Season. (There’s a lot of horses in this, so yes, I loved it:) – M J Porter
Here's the blurb ‘It’s not a fair world I’m afraid. Beauty or fortune carries the day. You have the beauty and I the fortune, so there’s every chance we’ll succeed’ In Regency England, marriage is everything. For young widow Sybella Lovatt, the time has come to find a suitable husband for her sister and ward…
“Classifying Pseudoscience”: Sven Ove Hansson on Michael D. Gordin’s *On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience* | Society for US Intellectual History
There is no lack of books offering a broad perspective on pseudoscience. Can a new overview add something important? Yes, Michael Gordin’s book adds at least two important aspects to the literature. First, as a historian, he puts some of the pseudosciences in a historical perspective that is seldom presented. Secondly, he contributes to the
The Thread Collectors – by Alyson Richman and Shaunna J. Edwards – independent book review – Historical Fiction (United States) – Toby A. Smith
I recommend THE THREAD COLLECTORS, especially because it’s the only book I’ve ever read about this time period that includes three less well-known aspects of the Civil War story....