Faith, Fiction, Friends

Two great waves of immigration occurred in the United States beginning in the 1840s. The first was the Irish, driven by the  Great Potato Fa...

When I first envisioned my novel  Brookhaven ,  I focused on a family story passed down through generations, which turned out to be a legend...

Two significant events of 19 th  century Scottish history form the backdrop to  Clear , the wonderful and moving novel by British author  Ca...

When you are born and grow up in a state that has parishes instead of counties, whose legislature was required to write laws in both French ...

“X” marks the spot. Pirates hunting for buried treasure. Parrots perched on the shoulders of pirates. Treasure maps.   It all came from a si...

Perhaps it was the fact that he died young. Or perhaps it was because he never published any famous novels, or even unfamous ones. But  Vsev...

Christmas as it’s celebrated today – the trees, the feasting, the presents – was given a major push in the 19 th   century with the publicat...

John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) was a British theologian, pastor, preacher, and writer. He worked as a minister in rural England for 38 years,...

Brothers Jan and Karl Thoreson and their families have arrived in New York. Immigrants from Norway, they are headed to the Nebraska Ter...

Rose Brownlee is 32, happily married, and the mother of three children. In an instant, everything is snatched from her – the family’s c...

You might want to call this “everything you wanted to know about British parliamentary history in the 19 th century, and then some.” ...

My paternal ancestors come from a very distinguished group in 18 th century British society – the ones removed from debtors’ prisons a...