A Research Ghost

How many people can actually state with certainty they have had a ghostly encounter? Probably a lot. How many historical researchers can state with certainty they encountered a ghost during their research? Probably the latter list would be a very short one. Every time I look at this photo I’m reminded of my ghost encounter…

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Using Imaginary to Tell a Nonfiction Story

Research Photographs of the Hunt Book The hard re-editing and restoration of all the Hunt photographs I’ve gathered during this research since 2008 has been completed. Currently, out of the original photographic files I’ve re-edited and restored 160 photos. Unfortunately, not all of these images will make it into the main Hunt book when it’s…

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How Mortality Records Can Provide a Historical Picture of a German Community

Imagine just this moment in time you’re dying of consumption in the High Plains of Texas. It’s August 1906, when the air is at its height of being hot, dry and stale. There might be an occasional breeze, but it does nothing to cool you. You’re coughing up blood mixed with phlegm because your lungs…

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Finding Dorothy Scott Review

FINDING DOROTHY SCOTT Letters of a WASP Pilot  by Sarah Byrn Rickman Genre: Military History / Biography Publisher: Texas Tech University Press Date of Publication: May 30, 2016 Number of Pages: 288 Scroll down for Giveaway! More than eleven hundred women pilots flew military aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War…

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