As in her splendid adult debut, Waltzing in Ragtime, Eileen Charbonneau has written a rich and powerful historical novel of a family torn apart both by loss and

For over one hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom have stood at the center of our understanding of religious liber

On an Atlantic crossing in 1805, Judith Mercer, a Quaker missionary, obtains the freedom of a poor youth impressed to work as a deckhand. Subsequently it is dis

At the turn of the 20th century, in San Francisco, Olana Whittaker is struggling to make it on her own as a journalist for the "Gold Coast Chronicle". While cov

The father fled East Prussia to escape the 1880s pogroms and, as a penniless immigrant boy, hawked newspapers on the streets of Chicago. The son, who lives on P