Non-Fiction | Modern History
Society of History Writers Directories
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. A collection of compelling stories from diaries, oral histories and other sources about the record Ohio River deluge that devastated my family and an entire region. Neil’s work outside of Substack includes authoring The Longest Shot, Draw in the Dunes, and HO! HO! HO!
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. Two main topics: the publishing network of the Victorian Alexander Macmillan, and the lives of British women born in the inter-war years.
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. My regular series, four times a month or so, alternates between commentary on foreign affairs, personal reminiscences, and my academic specialty of African American political figures of the 19th century. I have published four historical biographies on such figures as George Henry White, the last black Congressman of the 19th century, and his colleagues in the National Afro-American Council. I also served as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for the Department of State from 1983 to 1997, serving in Jamaica, Denmark, Suriname, Singapore, and Latvia.
by Christian Orlic. Exploring the use of science and medicine to curtail crime in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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. A study of historical and contemporary issues related to animation, from a published scholar of the art. You can find more of David’s work at the following link:
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. Researching and writing about nursing in WWI and history in general.
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. An occasional newsletter on forgotten history that matters today: stories of once prominent lives and events, now lost in obscurity, that challenge our sketchy understanding of the past.
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. Reflections on how the past meets the present in the twenty-first century. Featuring articles on American history, local history, public history, museums and historic sites, digital history, and AI.
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. "There is nothing new in the world except the history that you don't know."-Harry Truman. History is full of stories hidden by the passage of time. This newsletter will dig up these tales and bring them to light for your enjoyment.
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. A digital curio cabinet of perfume history. Topics range from ancient Egypt to the Second World War. You can find more of Jen’s work on TikTok, @immortalperfumes.
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. A miscellanea of stories, ephemera, and memories, recounting places old and new, lost and found.
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. Writing about several women form an Irish family and their evolving involvement in transatlantic slavery.
Memory, Time, History on Lake of the Woods by
. A weekly glimpse into my research on why the great-grandchildren of Kakaygeesick, were dispossessed of their ancestral homeland and what that has to do with me, a white woman whose great-grandparents homesteaded on ceded Red Lake Reservation land on Lake of the Woods.
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. A bi-weekly newsletter exploring the history and culture of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Pioneering Sisterhood by Kailey. I share the untold stories of Latter-Day Saint pioneer women—real lives of faith and grit that you won’t find in the usual history books. These are the everyday heroines whose stories are both inspiring and deeply human.
You can find more of Kailey’s work at the link below:
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. Stories from the history of medicine, with an inclination towards the strange.
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. How I went from writing a YA time-travel adventure book series to becoming an ancestor memoirist to recover the past in search of wellness, wholeness, and holiness.
Robin’s work outside of Substack includes:
The Edge of Yesterday YA time-travel adventure series: Edge of Yesterday, Da Vinci's Way, Saving Time and Find Me in the Time Before. The books are at the intersection of hinge points of history, past, present and future.
In the series, STEMinista protagonist Charley builds a time machine that whisks her back in time to encounter her polymathic "heroes of history" - like Leonardo da Vinci in Renaissance Florence, Emilie the Marquise du Chatelet and Voltaire, in Enlightenment France to learn their secrets as she aspires to be a modern-day Renaissance girl who can "do it all."
In addition to the ancestor memoir-in-process, Releasing Memory, that is the subject of this Substack, she is also currently working on Book V, Struck by Stars, where Charley time travels to the Harlem Renaissance and encounters Zora Neale Hurston.
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I make history accessible to the public through my series through series and courses. Past series include 100 Historic Black Women, Beyond Hyphenation: A Deep History of Diasporas and History of the British Empire for Britons.
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. Learning about history and songs and the people who made both.
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. The Textual Materialist examines literary and poetic texts from past eras. From Palestine to Iran to the Caucasus, we consider how poetry (to paraphrase Darwish) changes the poet, while also changing the world. At the intersection of poetics and politics, we show how historical context can offer a window into other ways of seeing. You can find more of Rebecca’s work at the link below.
You can find more of Christine’s work at the links below:
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