by Jillianne | Oct 30, 2022 | History Articles
This is a guest post from author Alina Adams. Thank you Alina! Fiddler on the Roof doesn’t offer the year when it’s supposed to be taking place, but references to a major pogrom in a nearby city suggest it’s 1905, and the pogrom is the one in Kishinev. Or maybe...
by Jillianne | Jul 24, 2022 | History Articles, Women's History
This is a guest post from Saluting 23 Faithful Suffragists author Jo Ann Matthews. Thanks Jo Ann! Books and articles have publicized the activism of Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. I have featured them on my blog, but...
by Jillianne | Jan 21, 2022 | History Articles
Totalitarian regimes don’t conquer regions overnight. Instead, they implement and change everyday life for citizens one thing at a time. The following is a guest post is by author Cathy A. Lewis. Thanks Cathy! 1. The Loss of Freedom Everything from freedom of...
by Jillianne | Feb 6, 2021 | History Articles
This is a guest post from Gift of Diamonds author Roberta Seret, Ph.D. Thanks Roberta! Romanian women during the 1960’s at the time when my literary heroine, Mica, in Gift of Diamonds, was growing up in Transylvania, were “existentialist” women. Many of them were well...
by Jillianne | Sep 13, 2020 | History Articles, Women's History
This is a guest post by author Maggie Humm. Thanks Maggie! Amazon have classified my debut novel, Talland House, as historical fiction, but the novel does not simply, or only, fit within that one genre. Set between 1900 and 1919 in picturesque Cornwall and war-blasted...
