Happy Holidays!

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History Imagined posts will resume in January. Hope your holidays and 2026 are filled with the love and friendship of those you hold dear!

Happy Thanksgiving!

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From my home to yours, wishing you a wonderful day of good food, loving family, good friends, and excellent fellowship! If you know someone who will be alone on this special holiday, I… Continue reading

Unlocking a 5000 Year Old Murder by Sharon Krasny

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A German couple, hiking the Similaun mountain 34 years ago, found one of the greatest archeological finds of the 20th century. They found Ötzi the Iceman. He was murdered over 5000 years ago,… Continue reading

Rugby, TN: a Utopian Community by Joan Donalson

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Ae Fond Kiss is my third novel taking place in the Utopian Community of Rugby, TN.  Over twenty years ago, friends retired to Historic Rugby and built a cottage matching the village’s Gothic… Continue reading

Is Exploitation the Root Cause of Terrorism? by Cliff Garstang

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On February 15, 1915, the first day of the Chinese New Year, a regiment of Muslim Indian soldiers in the British army stationed in Singapore, which at the time was a British colony,… Continue reading

New Release!

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In Gilead’s Physician, journey back to the late 19th century inSalacoa Valley, Georgia, where James Buchanan, a young manwith dreams of becoming a doctor, returns to his hometownafter completing his education. As he… Continue reading

Mona Lisa’s Daughter: A Journey of Discovery by Belle Ami

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Research is the cornerstone of my book creation process, and Mona Lisa’s Daughter was a particularly demanding project. The dual timelines of 16th-century Florence and World War II Florence, separated by nearly 500… Continue reading

Conservation Out of Conflict: White Mountains National Forest by Kady Ambrose

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Setting my romantic WWI-era fantasy novel, All That Shimmers, in New Hampshire prompted extensive research into regional history, with a special focus on the White Mountains.The book is set in 1918 at Twin… Continue reading

WOMEN IN THE SHADOWS OF HISTORY by Lorraine Norwood

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Thanks to Women’s Studies, we’ve brought them into the open. But are they now in peril? To paraphrase Virginia Woolf, “Anonymous” was a woman. She lived anonymously, participated anonymously in historic events, and… Continue reading

How Women’s Work Changed: From Home Life to Fighting for Rights (1780-1914) By Joan Fernandez

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In researching my book on Jo van Gogh and her remarkable dedication to save her brother-in-law, Vincent van Gogh, and his artwork from obscurity, I needed to understand what societal restrictions existed around… Continue reading