Many events in history inspire songs – and Charles Lindbergh’s historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean is no exception.  Within 2 days of ...

As I have mentioned a couple times before, sometimes my fiancé's music choices actually have some relevance to my blogging – and those a...

There are many mnemonic devices that we learn in school or make up to learn various difficult/tedious factoids – especially in history. One ...

The plight of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus has inspired various cultural adaptations in songs, images, and books. Some of these are prett...

After reading Rothstein by Joseph Pietrusza and learning the in depth story of the Black Sox scandal of 1919 I had to share an interesting ...

Sometimes when you are reading about something it brings to mind something very obscure. Well that happened this past weekend while doing my...

I have previously featured posts about Titanic here but wanted to do something to celebrate the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of lives...

So while I was surfing the web looking up information on the upcoming movie release of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (more on this next we...

As so much of A Light on the Veranda  by Ciji Ware is about music, I just had to put together a player for some of the songs mentioned.  I a...

This week I will be sharing some posts with you about the 20th president, James Garfield.  He was someone that I knew almost nothing about, ...

When I picked up the book Sovay by Celia Rees I had no idea that the basic premise of the book was based on a traditional ballad. I thought...

Prima Donna by Megan Chance Paperback, 432 pages Broadway December 29, 2009 ★★★★½☆ Genre: Historical fiction Source : Received from p...

While looking for Marjorie Hart’s website, I stumbled across her Myspace page for the book Summer at Tiffany. Here she has posted an I-pod p...