by envisionmg | Mar 3, 2016 | History, Reading Lists
Perhaps you’ve seen Hamilton: An American Musical? Or read Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton, the biographical seed of inspiration that grew into the musical? Or perhaps the buzz has simply piqued your interest? From biographies of people like Burr, Lafayette,...
by envisionmg | Feb 29, 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 give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to that day’s events. 1704 The Raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts. Early in the morning of February 29th, a...
by envisionmg | Feb 19, 2016 | Historical Fiction, History
You know how it is, you are finishing up reading a book and it hits you: “What am I going to read next?!” And it’s not that you don’t have other things to read, it’s that you have too much to read. Maybe you have piles of books on the...
by envisionmg | Feb 17, 2016 | History, Jim Reviews
If you have seen any of the flyers, you know the library has a new History Book Group that meets every third Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm. Massie’s Catherine the Great is this month’s book (which we will be discussing this evening; all are welcome)....
by envisionmg | Dec 21, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews
If you are like me you haven’t heard much about the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Which as I found out is kind of a shame because it really sets the stage for a lot of the wars of the 20th century. Pleshakov’s Tsar’s Last Armada, takes you through...
by envisionmg | Dec 7, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews
People have been writing books about the Battle of Guadalcanal basically from the moment the island was secured. As the first US land offensive of World War II, this battle has attained almost mythical statues. Hornfischer in Neptune’s Inferno tries to edit some...
