From the Archives: When Paris Went Dark

Another post from the past, in this case 2014, related to the stuff I’m working on today. New stuff soon, I promise. When Nazi troops marched into Paris in June, 1940, the city surrendered without firing a shot.* In When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 , historian Ronald C.…

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From the Archives: Word with a Past–Parchment

One of these days I’m going to come out the other side of this book, honest. Luckily I have 10+ years of blog posts to draw on in the meantime. I had forgotten all about this one from 2013. ***** For hundreds of years papyrus was the principal material on which books (or at least…

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From the Archives: Beyond Belief

I’ve reached a point in the revision process where I’m going back to books I read early in the research process.  Because while some people may write and re-write in an absolute straight line, I do not.  I move back and forth, and sometimes I zigzag.  I’m definitely in a zigzag phase as I draw…

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