THE PHAROAH’S TREASURE: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization by John Gaudet
Author of Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today’s Water Wars, John Gaudet, Ph.D’s THE PHARAOH’S TREASURE: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization, a multi-disciplinary history of how the first paper fueled the development of Western Civilization beginning in Egypt during the Neolithic period through the introduction […]
Kaminski
Theresa Kaminski Theresa Kaminski, an academically trained historian with a Ph.D., published Dr. Mary Walker’s Civil War in June 2020 with Lyons Press. Dr. Walker is the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor, and for decades she worked for gender equality, especially women’s suffrage. The book is the most recent culmination of her […]
History Book Club selects America’s Longest Siege
So pleased that the History Book Club has selected Joseph Kelly’s America’s Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery and the Slow March Toward Civil War for their Winter Catalog. Civil War buffs shouldn’t miss this fascinating book. The Library Journal said, “Kelly brings a literary sensibility to this vivid and engrossing study of slavery in and around […]
Carving Out a Narrative from a Sea of Fascinating Details – On Writing History by Joseph Kelly
I fell into this book sideways. A long time ago, I wrote a short article for the Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, and I was hooked by the strange life of John England, the first Catholic bishop of Charleston. Raised in Cork, Ireland, this prickly champion of Catholic emancipation stuck like a thorn in […]
Kelly
Joseph Kelly, Ph.D. Whether he’s writing about John Smith or John C. Calhoun, about the Union’s siege of Charleston in the Civil War or the shipwrecked birth of America, Joseph Kelly looks for the human story, fully painting the figures who make history happen. Always he aims to write about complex ideas and history in lively, readable prose. […]
SEARCHING FOR SAPPHO, Philip Freeman
The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet, Philip Freeman. A full-length investigation of the life and work of the female poet Plato called “the tenth muse,”…