This is a fictional account of the occupants of a house, or more accurately a location, in western Massachusetts, I think, over the course of many years. The story of this one location is made up of many stories of the various occupants. It starts before there is much of a dwelling at all. There Read More
Month: August 2026
Revolutionary America, 1763-1815, edited by Francis D Cogliano & Kirsten E Phimister
This is called a Sourcebook, because it consists of various documents that were written around the time of the American Revolution. There is not a great deal of analysis of these documents, but there is an introduction for each chapter, and a brief description of each item. The documents are divided somewhat by topic, or Read More
Benedict Arnold Revolutionary Hero, by James Kirby Martin
The subtitle of this book is “An American Warrior Reconsidered”. Martin tries to look at all of Benedict Arnold’s life, not just his service in, and eventual betrayal of, the Continental Army. Some previous biographies started with the fact of his being a traitor to the Revolution, and basically decided that he must have been Read More