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July 8, 2011
Click here to read my letter to The New York Review of Books, written after the death of Barbara Zimmerman Epstein, the first American editor of the Diary of Anne Frank:
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June 12, 2011
From The Brandon Sun (January 22, 2005): “The information provided in this book confirms what I have read in other books about Anne Frank, but the appeal of this one is beyond my expectations ...
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May 6, 2011
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April 5, 2011
In a review for the Exeter Alumni Bulletin, Marcia Carlisle, a former history teacher and a founder of the Exeter Humanities Institute, wrote,
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March 8, 2011
Mary Catherine Ball writes about Freedom Calls for the Bay Weekly. This feature includes a recipe for "coach wheels" -- something Abby and Louisa liked to eat.
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February 21, 2011
Historians ignored Harriet Tubman for decades after her death in 1913 (with a few intermittent exceptions). Ninety years later, in 2003, they took another look.
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February 4, 2011
From a Washington Post review about "race, teen woes, and hardship" by Mary Quattlebaum (May 12, 2001)
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January 18, 2011
"Meticulous about what is known and what is not confirmed, the simple prose is eloquent in describing how Tubman started as a passenger on the Underground Railroad and went on to become one of its...
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December 21, 2010
“This entry in the Know Your Government series is of special and timely interest.
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November 17, 2010
“The first really complete and accurate children’s book on the life of the Quaker abolitionist….Carefully researched, and written in a lively and compelling style, this book will introduce young re