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The guest author on my blog today is Warren Bull, who writes historical and contemporary mysteries. Today on my blog, he answers the question of whether Abraham Lincoln was a racist.Stop by and leave a comment this week. You may win a copy of his book, Abraham Lincoln for the Defense .
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
When children are forced to be soldiers, humanity is the criminal. Today, the guest on my blog's Relevant History feature is author Mark L. Van Name, who provides a chilling example of how genre fiction borrows themes from lessons that history keeps trying to teach us.Stop by and leave a comment on my blog this week. You may win a copy of Van Name’s book, Children No More.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, my guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
You don’t have to look far to find true heroes. They’re the folks who act appropriately in the presence of fear. Today, the guest for my Relevant History feature is author Karen Lynn Allen, who describes one such hero and his amazing act of non-violent derring-do in the midst of war.Stop by and leave a comment on my blog this week. You may win a copy of Allen’s book, Beaufort 1849.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, my guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
The Fourth of July starts today on my blog, when I get the ball rolling for a week of Independence Day and Relevant History. My guests during the week are authors who write about the Revolutionary War. They’ll be giving away copies of their books. Oh, yeah, and there’s a giveaway in there that isn’t a book. :-)Stop by and leave a comment today. You may win a copy of Paper Woman, my award winning mystery/suspense set during the Southern theater of the Revolutionary War.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Yesterday on my blog, award winning novelist Charles F. Price asked, "Why not read about the war the South won?" In today’s blog post, YA author Dr. Christine R. Swager shows how the South won the war. You know we’re talking about the Revolutionary War, right? And yes, this is Relevant History.Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a copy of Chris’s YA book, Heroes of Kettle Creek.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
A cuppa tea goes so well with a good book, and you can hardly talk about the Revolutionary War and Independence Day without bringing up the topic of tea, right? Today on my blog, Relevant History welcomes Tin Roof Teas’ general manager Ryan Hinson with the scoop on what was pitched overboard 16 December 1773.Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a stash of tea from Tin Roof Teas.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
In today’s blog post, author J.R. Lindermuth romps through the free-for-all of counterfeiting and espionage during the Revolutionary War. And yes, this is Relevant History.Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a copy of his novel of historical suspense, The Accidental Spy.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
What’s omitted from high school history class? Fun and wisdom. We aren’t learning from history very well. I discuss why this matters for our future on my blog today, in the final post from the Week of Independence Day. And yes, this is Relevant History.Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a copy of The Blacksmith's Daughter or Camp Follower, two of my historical mystery/suspense titles.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Would you take a steamship from New York down through the Straits of Magellan and up the west side of the Americas so you could search for California gold? Today, the guest for my Relevant History feature is Western historical fiction author Steve Bartholomew, who shows us some of the adventure and drama that people endured in the mid-1800s to get to California.Stop by and leave a comment this week. You may win a copy of Bartholomew’s book, Gold: A Tale of the California Gold Rush.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, my guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
The guest author on my blog today is Suzanne Tyrpak, who writes historical suspense. She gives us a peek inside the life of a vestal virgin in Ancient Rome. Look for a fascinating connection to a certain practice in seventeenth-century America.Stop by and leave a comment this week. You may win a copy of Suzanne's book, Vestal Virgin: Suspense in Ancient Rome.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Heads-up if you like historical mystery, suspense, and romance. In honor of Thanksgiving, I'm posting Relevant History essays 17–27 November 2011 on my blog, each with a gratitude and thanksgiving theme, and with the goal of showing you how thanksgiving throughout human history has looked. Authors will be giving away their books during the week. Here's the author lineup:o 17–18 November: Suzanne Adair
o 19 November: Suzanne Tyrpak
o 20 November: Peg Herring
o 21 November: Margaret Lake
o 22 November: M.E. Kemp
o 23–24 November: Suzanne Adair
o 25 November: Gwen Mayo
o 26–27 November: Suzanne Adair
Stop by and leave a comment today. You may win a copy of Regulated for Murder: A Michael Stoddard American Revolution Thriller, my recently released historical thriller.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Where can you find eleven days of Thanksgiving with a book lover's giveaway every day? On my blog. Today, it's Meditrinalia and Saturnalia! Historical suspense novelist Suzanne Tyrpak shows us how the ancient Romans gave thanks. And yes, this is Relevant History.Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a copy of Suzanne's new book, set for a December 2011 release, Agathon's Daughter: Hetaera.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Where can you find eleven days of Thanksgiving with a book lover's giveaway every day? On my blog. Today, you're invited to party, Tudor-style. Historical mystery author Peg Herring shows us how the folks of King Henry the Eighth's England gave thanks. And yes, this is Relevant History.Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a copy of Peg's book, Her Highness' First Murder.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Where can you find eleven days of Thanksgiving with a book lover's giveaway every day? On my blog. Today historical romance author Margaret Lake shows us how many women were responsible for cooking all that food for the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving. The answer may surprise you. And yes, this is Relevant History.Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a copy of Margaret's book, A Walk In The Woods.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Where can you find eleven days of Thanksgiving with a book lover's giveaway every day? On my blog. Today historical mystery author M.E. Kemp invites you to a Puritan Thanksgiving. All the liquor you can drink -- and wait 'til you see the size of the lobster tail. And yes, this is Relevant History.Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a book cover pin.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Where can you find eleven days of Thanksgiving with a book lover's giveaway every day? On my blog. Today: no big surprise. Patriots and loyalists had dramatically different ideas about how to celebrate thanksgiving during the American War of Independence. And yes, this is Relevant History.Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a copy of Regulated for Murder: A Michael Stoddard American Revolution Thriller, my recently released historical thriller.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Where can you find eleven days of Thanksgiving with a book lover's giveaway every day? On my blog. Today, historical mystery author Gwen Mayo invites you to ditch the Black Friday Blues and belly up to an American Victorian Thanksgiving -— after you chase bourbon around the racetrack in Lexington, Kentucky. And yes, this is Relevant History.Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a copy of Gwen's book, Circle of Dishonor.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Where can you find eleven days of Thanksgiving with a book lover's giveaway every day? On my blog. Today: a lesson on gratitude and perseverance from the Spaniards who established the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States. No, it isn't Jamestown, Virginia. And yes, this is Relevant History.Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a copy of Regulated for Murder: A Michael Stoddard American Revolution Thriller, my recently released historical thriller.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
The guest author on my blog today is Ann Parker, who writes historical mystery. She provides a humorous look at the wild and not-so-wild women of the American West.Stop by and leave a comment this week. You may win a copy of Parker's book, Mercury's Rise.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Abraham Lincoln in a duel? The guest author on my blog today is Warren Bull. He provides the scoop on this little-known incident.Stop by and leave a comment this week. You may win a copy of Bull's book, Murder Manhattan Style.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
How many people died when Columbus lied? The guest author on my blog this week is Elizabeth Zelvin. She provides the scoop on lies shrouding Christopher Columbus's voyages.Stop by and leave a comment this week. You may win a copy of Zelvin's award-nominated historical short story, "The Green Cross," or her contemporary mystery Death Will Extend Your Vacation.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Heads-up, history lovers! In honor of Independence Day, I'm posting Relevant History guest essays throughout the week of 29 June–5 July 2012 on my blog, each one with a Revolutionary War theme.My guests this year include authors of fiction and non-fiction and even a historical military artist. Books and prizes will be given away, including two copies of my historical thriller, Regulated for Murder.
Here's the author lineup:
29 June: Suzanne Adair
30 June: Don Troiani
1 July: Peggy Earp
2 July: Don Hagist
3 July: Christine Blevins
4 July: John Buchanan
5 July: Suzanne Adair
Those bone-dry accounts in your high school American history textbook didn't include *this* Revolutionary War. Visit my blog 29 June–5 July for some fun summer reading...and for a chance to win books and prizes.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
The Fourth of July starts today on my blog, when I get the ball rolling for a week of Independence Day and Relevant History. My guests during the week are authors of fiction and non-fiction and a historical military artist, and we're talking about the American War of Independence. We'll be giving away books and prizes.Was it a red-coated world from 1775–1783? Stop by and leave a comment today. You may win a copy of my historical thriller, Regulated for Murder.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
The summer holiday spirit continues today on my blog. Don't miss this interview with celebrated historical military painter Don Troiani. Learn how he infuses his art with atmosphere and accuracy.Stop by and leave a comment today. You may win a copy of my historical thriller, Regulated for Murder.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Today during the "Week-long Fourth of July" on my blog, fabrics expert Peggy Earp discusses the complexities of making clothing from sheep's wool and flax and dismantles the myth that everyone in Revolutionary War America was self-sufficient.Stop by and leave a comment. You may win an instructional DVD on spinning or a copy of my book Regulated for Murder.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Today on my blog, independent researcher Don Hagist reveals a poignant love story in the midst of the American Revolution. Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a copy of Don's book A British Soldier's Story: Roger Lamb's Narrative of the American Revolution.About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Today on my blog, historical fiction author Christine Blevins gives us a taste of Revolutionary American cuisine. Stop by and leave a comment. You may win prizes worthy of your sedition, including copies of Christine's books The Tory Widow and The Turning of Anne Merrick.About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Today on my blog, author John Buchanan shows the price Lord Cornwallis paid for his misguided optimism in the South. Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a copy of Buchanan's book, The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas.About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
Today on the final blog post from the second annual "Week-Long Fourth of July," America's founders speak about "issues" in an election year. Stop by and leave a comment. You may win a copy of my historical thriller, Regulated for Murder.About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
WWII internment camp: what a great place to hide a murder. The guest authors on my blog this week are Joanne Dobson and Beverle Graves Myers. They dish the scoop on another WWII internment camp story the media have glossed over.Stop by and leave a comment this week. You may win a copy of their new historical mystery, Face of the Enemy: It's a Helluva War.
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair
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Face of the Enemy: A New York in Wartime Mystery #1 (other topics)Regulated for Murder (other topics)
The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas (other topics)
The Tory Widow (other topics)
The Turning of Anne Merrick (other topics)
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Beverle Graves Myers (other topics)Joanne Dobson (other topics)
Suzanne Adair (other topics)
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Suzanne Adair (other topics)
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Stop by and leave a comment this week. You may win a copy of her book, Circle of Dishonor .
About Relevant History: For many, high school history was boring and extraneous. In this feature on my blog, guests show just how non-boring, non-extraneous history is to people in the 21st century.
Suzanne Adair