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Technology is everywhere. Most of us wouldn’t be able to function without it in our lives. As a late baby boomer, I remember the first...

I’ve mentioned, in earlier blogs, my joy when I stumble upon a new idea or inspiration befitting my story’s time period of which I was...

I’ve written some pretty heavy blogs of late so I thought it might be refreshing for all of us to explore a lighter subject, one that...

A trip to Newbu

One benefit about having our children go to college out-of-state was the opportunity to visit them when they had a break and didn’t want...

Comparing the 44th American President with James K. Polk, the 11th , makes for an interesting study. Both share enormous ambition,...

I will likely never know what it is like to go somewhere without an understanding of what I am going to do once I arrive. Technology...

Social reformers are not, by nature, passive nor necessarily polite. They have a vision, a calling, to right wrongs and at the cost of...

As has been the case for so much of my story’s time period, another event is coinciding with the current coronavirus outbreak. Cholera,...

It’s amazing to me that I can do so much research from the comfort of my home but there comes a time when a visit has to happen. I’ve...

Our current headlines are full of the immigration debate. As I did my research, I learned that this topic isn’t new. Nor are political...

By 1790, there is no federal census record of buying and selling of slaves in Massachusetts. But, if someone came to the state with a...

When Charles Sumner addressed the Boston Mercantile Library Association in February, 1847, he gave an oration on the chattel slavery of...

My story forced me to understand Irish immigration in 1849, into Boston specifically. Here’s what I learned. The first wave of Irish...

As a woman of the western United States, the concept of servants and slaves has no specific ancestral significance to me. But, in 1849,...

As a twentieth-century girl, seeing a woman astraddle on horseback is a common sight. But, in 1849, when horseback travel was reserved...

It is hard to imagine in our world today, that there was actually such a thing as The Cult of True Womanhood . This article, by Barbara...

In our modern time, coverture isn’t an everyday word. Its implications do still affect us but not nearly like they did in the 17th,...

In most of our lifetimes, we have had the benefit of the Federal Reserve System, created in 1913, to provide the United States with a...

Keeping in the theme of the mid-1800s western migration, there’s another migration that gets little attention now, although it was, at...