A review of a chapter title A World of Paine, in the book, Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation by various authors, published in 2011. This text was written as part of a volunteer audio visual presentation featuring Thomas Paine for Patriot Lessons TV, recorded in 2015. Revolutionary Founders…
Category: Colonial
Martha Washington: The First First Lady
A review of the book Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days written by Geraldine Brooks and published in the year 1900. This text was written as part of audio visual presentation featuring Martha Washington for Patriot Lessons TV, recorded in 2015. Dames and Daughters is a book of nine chapters profiling nine different women of colonial…
38th Annual Kalamazoo Living History Show
March 16-17, 2013 (Kalamazoo)—A stately President Lincoln walked past me, surveying a table of books – surely some written about him. A stout gentleman in a late 18th century wig and waistcoat strode proudly through the ever-gathering crowds. I almost ran headlong into a commanding officer of Her Majesty’s Army of the War of 1812….