Category: History
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Can Your Hands Speak 40 Languages?
I’m researching the French and Indian War for the third book in the Tomahawk and Saber series, and as I thought about the complications of language, I remembered some other research I’d done in the past. Plains Indian Sign Language isn’t particularly applicable to the French and Indian War (though a few of the nations involved, like…
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Those Boozey Revolutionaries
When you’re researching things for historical fiction, one of the key elements is understanding what people in your setting did all day. And in the American colonies, what they did was drink. Sure, they did a lot more. Like plan a revolution, write some neat aphorisms, lay the foundations for what would become a global…
Nathanael Green 