Once upon a time, not so very long ago, I practiced as a psychologist. I enjoyed my career but now it’s time to do something else with my life. I’ll be using this place to organize and share all the things I love doing now. Among the topics I like to study and write about are folklore, medieval life and times, American history up to the end of the Civil War, Connecticut and New England, travel, animals, plants and gardening. I also will be posting reviews of books I’ve enjoyed. On a personal note, I’m married, have a son and a daughter, both doing well on their own now, and 2 adorable little grand-daughters, three cats and two grand-dogs. I work part time at two local historic house museums, and love to read, knit, and travel, especially to France, England, and Italy. And I spend a lot of time on-line. A lot.
Hi History, I would like to get my book in front of you for a review. I have read your reviews and I love how honest they are. I am an unknown author doing my damdest to break into the literary world with a memior that I feel is noteworthy. If I can spark your interest my book is STAND by Debbie Williamson it is on Amazon and if you google it comes up in several places. Thank you so much let me know if there is an interest.
Debbie
dwilli1101@msn.com
I’d like to talk with you about hosting author of Vietnam Air Rescues, Dave Richardson, as a guest on your blog. In return, I would also promote your blog.
Your blog is terrific!
Here is an entry from the blog of the Archives of the Sandusky Library if you would like to take a look:
http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/program-announcement-victim-of-honor.html
Thanks! I’ll pop over and check yours out.
Linda
Hi,
After looking through your blog, Your’re History, I thought that you would be interested hearing about our new book, National Geographic Exploration Experience, by Beau Riffenburgh.
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Hi there, i love your site. I myself am a bit of a history buff. I am thinking of writing a book on the Ct witch trials of the 1600′s. Any advice on how to start? thanks in advance.
Haven’t had a chance to look around yet, but this site seems right up my alley according to your About section.
I (will, 2 more months!) have a degree in Humanistic Studies, which focuses on history, literature, and how we (as a Western society) became who we are today. I wrote my senior thesis on the Middle Ages, so that’s my particularly favorite area of interest.
Looking forward to following your site.
Bob,
I’d start by reading the books written in the last 10 years about witch trials in CT. Check out the bibliographies, choose your focus, then I’m afraid you’ll have to dig and delve into town records and other primary sources.
Best of luck!
Stephanie,
I’m so glad you’ve found this site of interest, and hope you’ll visit often. You and I have a lot of interests in common!
I really enjoy your blog and wanted to introduce mine. I aim to make a documentary that retraces the two-year long voyage through the Americas of the 1850′s of my Swiss Great-Great-Grandfather, Henri de Buren, a naturalist, artist
and explorer.
Regards, Jean-François
You have a Great blog! Check my history blog out about the county I live in. Ellis County Texas. Created out of Navarro County on December 20, 1849. Places In The Heart was filmed here and the story line was created based on actual events in Ellis County.
Barry, thanks so much, glad you find this site interesting. I’d love to visit yours. What’s the URL?
Nice blog – hey are you on Facebook? If you are that way you could announce your posts and I could keep up with them. I have yet to figure any other way of keeping up with blogs. I’m a historian working at a history museum in TN. Found your site while looking for an image of an “ancient spindle”. LOL. Check out my blog – totally unrelated.
Hello … I have discovered some interesting characters from my family’s genealogy, circa 1850s Massachusetts (Connecticut River valley area and the western hill towns) and wondered if you might direct me to any reading (fiction or not) that could give me a sense of life as it existed in those places and times?
Thanks
Hey there,
love your blog, especially the history bent. since you liked my first mystery, thought you might be interested in my next, coming out in a week: Haunt Me Still, the further adventures of Kate Stanley. It’s a mystery set in Europe (if you count the U.K., are not a stickler for the continent)… so it might even fall within your 2010 challenge!
If you’d like to know more, take a look at my web site: http://www.jenniferleecarrell.com
In any case, happy reading: you’ve got a great list!
Best,
Jennifer
Hello – Just found your blog. I particularly enjoy the book reviews. It’s clear from your reading list that you’re a voracious reader. It’s very impressive.
Interested in a mystery series set in eleventh century Japan???
Thanks for the excellent reviews. They are concise, smart and informative. I’d love to have you visit my blog at http://www.brendamarshallauthor.com/blog to post a comment under Books That Matter. While you’re there, please look at my new novel, DAKOTA, OR WHAT’S A HEAVEN FOR, literary historical fiction set in 19th century Dakota Territory. There’s a trailer on the home page, and some readings of excerpts (photos and videos) on the DAKOTA page. Let me know what you think! I’d love to make a copy available for review.
Brenda
The Medieval World: An Illustrated Atlas, by John M. Thompson will tickle the fancy of any medievalist. With more than 60 maps and hundreds of glossy color images that sumptuously portray the vivid parade of a thousand years of human history, this book gracefully unveils an era often shrouded in lore and mystery, from the fall of Rome to the age of discovery.
Unprecedented in scope, The Medieval World profiles world-class cities from London and Paris to Barcelona, Florence, and Damascus and uses each great urban center to discuss characteristics of a particular century. Detailed timelines connect the many dramatic events that distinguished these volatile years. Quotes from famous medieval figures, close-ups of intriguing artifacts, and rich landscape photography of the places where battles were fought and monarchs were crowned help shed more light than ever before on the “Dark Ages.”
The Medieval World is an engaging lyrical adventure that sweeps readers through time and across continents. Vibrant text captures the intrigue of the era and the complexity of its people. Discover the origins of medieval wars, migrations, occupations, religious beliefs, and inventions. Learn more about the greatest manuscripts of the day, from the Magna Carta to the Domesday Book, and come face to face with the real people behind the famous legends of King Arthur, Joan of Arc, Charlemagne, Saladin and Richard the Lionhearted.
Penelope Dackis
pdackis@ngs.org
Hello there,
I am working on a clickable banner of Connecticut’s Book Bloggers. Would you mind e-mailing me so that I could get an avatar from you for your page?
Sure. Sending it now.
Hello,
I was wondering if you accept guest post for your blog. If you do, I would like to submit a few. I’m a recent college graduate, with an English major, looking to build out my portfolio. I can write on a wide variety of topics and am sure you would be happy with the quality. Please email me back if you are interested. Thank you for your time.
- Kathleen Hubert
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002374243662
Glad I ran across your site…good stuff!
Hello Linda Pagliuco,
Just sent you an email to the cemetery address, which didn’t go through! Wondering if you’d be interested in reviewing my spiritual mystery novel, An Uncertain Age?
Best wishes,
Ulrica Hume
http://www.ulricahume.com
uhume, I’d be happy to read and review.
Would you like an e-book or paperback? Please reply to melissa.bluecircle at gmail.com Thanks!
paperback, pls. Will send address via email. Thanks!
Thanks, got it! Will send the paperback out tomorrow by media mail.
Hi Linda — I feel like you’ve heard this before. But could I send you a request to review my new novel? It’s a contemporary thriller set in London and Istanbul. Can you send your email address?
Please tell me a bit more about your book, and I’ll be glad to consider your request, Ken.
Hi Linda,
Here’s the summary I’m using on Amazon:
“A suicide attack on U.S. sailors in Istanbul leaves hundreds dead, triggering a global manhunt.
Meanwhile, Zander Blake, chief of the LAPD’s Art Theft squad, is flying to London to address a landmark UN assembly on saving the world’s most endangered treasures. He lands only in time to learn that the conference keynote speaker, a celebrated Harvard archaeologist, has just been coldly executed.
While the CIA struggles to track down the Istanbul terrorists and Scotland Yard conducts its rambling investigation, Penny Theobald, the Harvard professor’s beautiful graduate assistant, presses Blake into probing the murder with her. The pair follow a trail marred by secrets, betrayal, and violence that leads them to Turkey and the professor’s surprising connection to the terrorist attack, quickly pulling them into a diplomatic intrigue that threatens to ignite a new holy war—should the professor’s fatal mission come to light.
Eavesdropping FBI agents, an ambitious American curator, a cunning Oxford don, an antiquities dealer struggling with his own greed, a stunning assassin, intelligence operatives and bureaucrats intent on keeping Blake and Theobald at bay—all stand between the pair and their ultimately frantic search for the truth.”
Thanks.
Ken