Mercy Street and M*A*S*H

A BIT OF NEWS:  On Monday, January 25, from 4 to 5 PM Eastern Standard Time, I’m going to be the guest host at #LitChat, a real time Twitter chat that brings authors and book lovers to talk about bookish things. If you’re a Twitter user, it’s a great chance for you to ask me…

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Clara Barton, Act III: The American Red Cross

[WARNING:  For the next few weeks, it’s going to be all Civil War all the time here at the Margins as we lead up to February 16, when Little Brown releases Heroines of Mercy Street into the world. I’ll try to keep the My Book! My Book! to a minimum and focus on the stories…

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A Lagniappe: A chance to win a copy of Heroines of Mercy Street

For those of you who don’t know, I’m a regular contributor at Wonders & Marvels, a group history blog where you can find some of the most interesting writers of things historical on the internet.* The blog’s subtitle says it all, “A Community for curious minds who love history, its odd stories and good reads.”…

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