History is a writer’s richest quarry: every era hands you settings, stakes, and cautionary tales. These articles cover history in writing: research, accuracy, and the stories the past keeps offering to anyone who looks.
Ancient RomeThe Jewish War by Josephus is one of my favorite books, and the translation you pick decides whether you finish it. Josephus wrote for the Romans who spared him, so trust his map and doubt his numbers.
AIRestoring old photos for a memoir or family history book is fine, and AI makes it cheap. Clean up freely, check every face, label what you changed, and keep every original scan.
Book ReviewsBook two of Deanna Bennett's Anna Immigration Trilogy takes fifteen-year-old Anna through Ellis Island and onto a train to Chicago, where she learns how people fear and prey on immigrants. A tribute and a review.
Book ReviewsThe final book of Deanna Bennett's Anna Immigration Trilogy follows Anna through war, the great influenza epidemic and the temperance fight, as a Lithuanian girl builds an American life between 1914 and 1919. A tribute and a review.
Book ReviewsThe memoir Helen Dragunas began and her daughter Deanna Bennett finished: growing up the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants through the 1920s and the Depression, and what happened to the real Anna. A tribute and a review.
Book ReviewsBook one of Deanna Bennett's Anna Immigration Trilogy follows a fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl and her stern mother across Europe by rail and across the Atlantic in steerage in 1914. A tribute and a review.
FamilyGenealogy research, unlabeled photos, recipe cards and immigrant stories are the ingredients of a family history book. A ghostwriter interviews the relatives who remember and turns all of it into a book your family will read.
Business BooksCompany, church and community histories are written by historians, specialist firms, staff and ghostwriters. When you want the story told in the founder's or the organization's own voice, with the failures left in, hire a ghostwriter and settle ownership first.
AIEvery big technology wave follows the same curve, from wild expectations to a crash to quiet usefulness. Gartner says generative AI is already in the trough, yet the spending keeps climbing, and the people pumping it up are the ones…
Fiction WritingEvery historical epic reviewed on this site, ranked. Dreyer, Bondarchuk, Kubrick, Zinnemann and Branagh, plus the two Musketeers films shot simultaneously and released as a swindle.
Fiction WritingEvery biopic and true story reviewed on this site, ranked. Space procedure, the Manhattan Project, a surgeon's uncredited assistant, four hours of Gettysburg, and the worst-reviewed biopic of the century.
Fiction WritingEvery medieval film reviewed on this site, ranked. Arthur, Becket, Bergman, Boorman and the Pythons, plus the crusader epic that exists in two completely different cuts.
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