Letter, Diaries

The Intellectual Handyman On Art is a compilation of Gary Peterson essays pertaining to the arts and sciences, mostly. Being an author, artist, and musician, Peterson has the tools to construct elabo …

In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter (18311908) raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate army. Over the next four years, he rose steadily in rank from captain to colonel, placing …

Mary Tudor’s childhood was overshadowed by the men in her life: her father, Henry VII, and her brothers Arthur, heir to the Tudor throne, and Henry VIII. These men and the beliefs held about women at …

During the 1950s and ’60s, writers E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith carried on a long correspondence by letter, despite living only a few miles apart on the coast of Maine. Often the letters were wri …

The first major history of the bravura movement in European painting The painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth centu …

"A grand and thrilling selection of Hoosier writing presented through the fraught lens of Christmas . . . a fascinating and utterly enjoyable read." -Michael Dahlie, award-winning author of …

Two Shakes of a Lamb’s Tail is the funny, illuminating diary of a year in the life of a New Zealand farm vet With a husband and two children, 1200 sheep and 400 cattle, farm dogs and pet lambs, pigs …

Remember the time you mentally pushed your fist into your mouth to keep from speaking? Or the moment you were afraid to start a fight over something you weren’t sure was worth it? This poetry reminds …

Scotty’s Junction equals mystery . . . intrigue . . . a glimpse in the deep unknowns of the human experience. Scotty Madaki is a teenage artist and musical prodigy who lives abroad most of his life u …