When I try it on for size, it hardly seems to fit – 25 years as an author! Hard for me to believe. But it’s true: my first book, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, was published in September 2003, but I first started researching the book in 2000. I’ll spare you the […]
Note from Stephen Puleo: I’ve been thrilled by the wonderful reader reactions to The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner’s Fight for a More Perfect Union, many of whom have written to let me know how much they enjoyed the book. But as with any work of history, some revealing stories had to be dropped for space and […]
Note from Stephen Puleo: I’ve been thrilled by the wonderful reader reactions to The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner’s Fight for a More Perfect Union, many of whom have written to let me know how much they enjoyed the book. But as with any work of history, some revealing stories had to be dropped for space and […]
Note from Stephen Puleo: I’ve been thrilled by the wonderful reader reactions to THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST: Charles Sumner’s Fight for a More Perfect Union, many of whom have written to let me know how much they enjoyed the book. But as with any work of history, some revealing stories had to be dropped for space and […]
NOTE FROM STEPHEN PULEO: I adapted this blog from my book, THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union because I thought it was important to highlight how Charles Sumner differed from other abolitionists. Sumner’s belief was that freedom and equality were America’s birthright, and racist laws were a perversion of […]
(Excerpted from THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union) Christmas Day, 1863, Washington, D.C. With his mother and sister miles away, and other Washington acquaintances otherwise occupied, Charles Sumner spent Christmas in the nation’s capital in a contemplative and selfless way, unusual for him during the heat of political […]
In my upcoming book, The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union, I include a chapter on the important events that took place during April, 1865, at General Ulysses S. Grant’s headquarters at City Point, Virginia. Grant and his Army of the Potomac command staff ensconced themselves at City Point […]
One message came through repeatedly while I was researching and writing THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST: Charles Sumner’s Fight for a More Perfect Union: Americans today who crave, above all else, courage and authenticity in their leaders would have enjoyed watching Charles Sumner work in the mid-nineteenth century. Where others preached compromise and moderation, Sumner never wavered […]
Traveling east from Branson along iconic US 60 in Missouri, sprawling farms line the landscape. For mile after mile, cotton, corn, and cattle serve as a reminder of the vital importance of the nation’s interior in feeding and clothing the rest of us. The feeling is similar riding along I-40 in Arkansas, where soybean, wheat, […]
I’ve made more than 630 appearances as an author, and by far the most enjoyable part of those events for me are the questions I receive from attendees. It’s a chance for me to hear from the audience (most of whom are my wonderful and loyal readers!), to interact with them, to broaden the discussion […]