History Months and Historical Truth
March is Women’s History Month, and I wish that wasn’t such a mixed bag. Everyone with a devotion to historical truth knows that Women’s History Month, like February’s Black History Month, isn’t just about celebrating the achievement of heroes but also requires remembering the ignorance and oppression those heroes had to fight their way through to succeed.
We say goodbye to Women’s History month in troubling times. Nightmarish undeclared wars rage,...
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Welcome to the first issue of our newsletter. I say our newsletter, not because I’m pregnant or believe I’m the queen of anything. “Speaking of Historical Fiction” is ours because you’re invited to join the conversation by sending your histfic essays, historical trivia, questions, and recommendations and reviews (300 words maximum) of historical novels to lamarys@yahoo.com. Please remember that all submissions should be appropriate for young adults as well as older readers. Thanks to...
Historical fiction is generally defined as a made-up story set in a real time and place that existed over fifty years ago—from the Precambrian Period (wouldn’t that be an interesting story!) to the 1970s. Some of the characters might be based on real people, but others might be created by the author.
The word in publishing circles is that historical fiction is out of style. But do you wish such a wonderful genre were more popular--telling good stories while opening windows into past...