by envisionmg | Jun 15, 2016 | History, Jim Reviews
If you ask most people what caused the American Revolution you would get some basic answer like “no taxation without representation,” stamps, or tea. We all have little niggling memories from school of being told, but can’t quite give a coherent...
by envisionmg | Jun 9, 2016 | Reading Intersections
The mouth of this particular rabbit hole gaped wider with each page turned in Holt’s Rise of the Rocket Girls. The book’s tight focus follows several women as their computer skills helped make space flight possible, but the shutter opens to reveal a good...
by envisionmg | Jun 6, 2016 | History, Jim Reviews
When most people think of Sicily they think of the Mafia; the more literary minded may get more specific and think Mario Puzo, but that’s as far as it probably goes. What makes Norwich’s Sicily such a great book is he delves into the fascinating and...
by envisionmg | Jun 3, 2016 | Reading Lists
Reading list curated by Rachel Nominees for the 2016 Tony Awards were announced May 3rd and – no surprise here – Hamilton snagged a record-breaking sixteen, but there’s more to Broadway than just a genre-spanning musical about dead white guys. (Even though it’s...
by envisionmg | May 25, 2016 | Historical Fiction, History, Today In History
In our Today In History Reading List feature, we take the events of a particular day in history and try to give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to those events. 240BC The First Recording of a Perihelion Passage of Halley’s Comet Chinese...
