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Blog: Gretchen Craig Topics:fiction, writers, novels
Tag Archives: Reconstruction
WRITERLY DECISIONS
The process for writing historical novels generally goes like this. You happen up on something that intrigues you. You do the research – lots of it, more than you can use. You ponder characters and plots. You dream about them. … Continue reading
Revolvers in 1867
It seems pistols in 1867 had no safety catches. Apparently, lots of guns still don’t. My source is the great and infallible internet, so it must be true. I’m writing about Reconstruction days when the Knights of the White Camellias … Continue reading
Reconstruction, so much better and so much worse than I knew.
To honor Black History Month: I have now read two books about reconstruction (A Short History of Reconstruction by Eric Foner, and The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era, by Michael A. Ross), … Continue reading
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Tagged Black History Month, blacks and police, Civil Rights, Ferguson, freed slaves, racism, Reconstruction
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