As Americans witness the escalation of violence in cities far from our own borders, I can’t help recalling another period when isolated clashes hardened into full-scale war. This is Part [...]
Annie Anthony’s love and courage blaze to life in my new historical novel, Born of This Fire. Born of This Fire—Book Two of the Dauntless Series—launches today! As it does, [...]
How do you celebrate 50 years of marriage? Jon and I marked our milestone by sailing up, up, and away in a hot air balloon! Floating high above the fields [...]
When Annie Anthony stepped off the train in Kansas, she didn’t know the dust would stick to everything. Fresh from Martha’s Vineyard with trunks full of fine dresses and the [...]
This week I made a belated discovery about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850–just what every Civil War-era author wants after publication! Frustrated that I didn’t see this earlier, I’m [...]
Daniel Read (D.R.) Anthony served as a Frontier Guard in a pivotal episode at the start of the Civil War. For nine days in April 1861, he and 115 other [...]
Even now, it’s hard to get a clear description of Mary Bowser, who greatly aided the North by spying on the Confederate White House during the Civil War. Maybe that’s [...]
A whole new source of information on the Underground Railroad is opening next weekend in Niagara Falls, starting May 4. I’m excited because it will offer more in-depth background for [...]
One day in early November 1862, Susan B. Anthony and her father Daniel were reading and discussing antislavery newspapers when he suddenly began suffering acute pain in
