PBS' "House" series of history documentaries take modern people back to live in earlier eras. These shows are a terrific study of human behavior and radical displacement in time and space. They might even be the next best thing to time travel. [Continue]

Alternate history: love reading it (here are book suggestions), and love writing it. History plus alternate timelines plus a measure of fantasy if needed or desired: what's not to love? This is Part I of a series looking at why a writer might [Continue]

I'm working on a prequel to an American historical story cycle. The prequel involves a Victorian Englishwoman, and has led me to some interesting byways of research in Victoriana. This posts discusses the synopsis of the Lillian story, and points to [Continue]