Train travel in the nineteenth century Soon after Emma D.E.N. Southworth married her husband Frederick, the two set out for a wild...

British soldiers marched into Washington City where they raided and burned many buildings, including the White House and the Capitol....

I've been to London several times now and have walked past the famous Savoy Hotel on the Strand, marveling at the beauty of the historic...

E.D.E.N. Southworth was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. Her life story truly is one of those rags to riches...

If you’ve been a follower of Facebook or Twitter for very long at all, you’ve either noticed new postings by your friends of a block of...

Since retiring from teaching last Spring, I have, henceforth, declared myself a writer. I suppose I am as I’ve been fairly diligent about...