Posted in Book Review, History, tagged nonfiction on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Amateur narcissism
Learning about your family’s slave trading empire must be hard to stomach, and the members of the family who undertook to study the facts deserve credit for facing up to it. Too bad they didn’t hire a qualified historian to write their story. Inheriting the Trade reminds me of those self-indulgent, melodramatic [...]
Posted in History, tagged Connecticut, event, news on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The annual summer farmers market in Coventry, CT has steadily grown in size and popularity, to the point where, last year, the organizers determined that a larger site was needed. Since the market is a project of the Coventry Historical Society, what could be more natural than to turn to Nathan Hale Homestead (a property [...]
Posted in History, tagged biography, crime on June 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A continuation of my series of short bios of the most infamous serial killers of the past 100 years or so. All these guys are equals – no ranking here.
http://yourehistory.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/top-10-serial-killers-first-two/
http://yourehistory.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/top-10-serial-killers-next-2/
David Berkowitz: Son of Sam
Born Richard David Falco in Brooklyn, NY, in 1953, David was adopted by Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz a few days after his [...]
