I began the following post several years ago, but didn't post it. I recently completed a novella, "Love's Escape" whic...

In my guest post for Colonial Quills, Coming To America , September 16, 2011, I delved into the subject of immigrants coming to the colonie...

  A TRIBUTE ON VETERAN'S DAY Each year on November 11 th we acknowledge and express appreciation for all the men and women who...

Our guest post today is by Julian Charity, Historian for Shirley Plantation in Charles City, Virginia.  Julian also has a new book relea...

No, I’m not referring to the 1981 Neil Diamond hit song or the 1988 Eddie Murphy movie, but the seventeenth and eighteenth century emigratio...