“I don’t really consider myself a historian. I consider myself a writer who writes historical stories, true stories, but my interest is in the story.”
– Erik Larson
“You have it now and that is all you whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow… There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything it nit will be in proportion… And if you stop complaining and asking for what you will never get, you will have a good life.”
– Ernest Hemingway, “for Whom the Bell Tolls”
“Uncertainty is not the worst thing, because in uncertainty there is still hope.”
– Victor Klemperer, “I Shall Bear Witness”
The year was 1851. A still, silent night blanketed the Harvard Campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Dew beaded the spacious, lush grounds. Night birds sang and crickets chirped. Most students and faculty were sound asleep in their cozy dormitories. Suddenly…. KABOOM. An earth-shattering roar split the air. Students rolled out of their beds. Some stray dogs barked and windows rattled. In the Cambridge arsenal on campus, smoke rose from a cannon that hadn’t… Read More
May, 1864. Spring had arrived in the state of Virginia, but so had the Union army. It wasn’t the first time, either. Since 1861, the boys in blue had slugged it out, and lost, against the formidable General Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. These fights carried a heavy price tag too. Thousands of soldiers lay buried under Virginia’s thick soil. Countless more bore wounds from physical scars, or the painful… Read More
“I don’t really consider myself a historian. I consider myself a writer who writes historical stories, true stories, but my interest is in the story.”
– Erik Larson
“You have it now and that is all you whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow… There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything it nit will be in proportion… And if you stop complaining and asking for what you will never get, you will have a good life.”
– Ernest Hemingway, “for Whom the Bell Tolls”
“Uncertainty is not the worst thing, because in uncertainty there is still hope.”
– Victor Klemperer, “I Shall Bear Witness”