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Peggy Shippen Arnold: Vapid Flirt or Manipulative Spy?

When George Washington and his men realized that General Benedict Arnold had fled in the wake of the revelation of his treasonous plot, no man present thought to question the innocence of Arnold's wife, Philadelphia socialite, Peggy Shippen. Alexander Hamilton wrote, 'All the sweetness of beauty, all the loveliness of innocence, all the tenderness of a wife and all the fondness of a mother showed themselves in her appearance and conduct. We have every reason to believe she was intirely unacquainted with the plan.' Marquis de Lafayette agreed. 'The unhappy Mrs Arnold did not know a word of this conspiracy....The horror with which her husband's conduct has inspired her, and a thousand other feelings, make her the most unhappy of women.' Even Washington claimed to have 'every reason to believe she is innocent.'

Why were they all so thoroughly convinced?

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New Covers!

My Plantagenet Embers series has beautiful new covers created by Tyler Wilcoxson!

The Civil War: A Native American Perspective

Guest Dane Pizzuti Krogman is on the blog with a unique look at the American Civil War:
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Declaration of Independence!

"The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival."
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Society of the Living Dead

In the years following World War I, Radium Dial was one of the best places for working-class girls of Ottawa, Illinois to earn good wages to help support their family or set savings aside for when they were married. Little did those girls know that the material they used to paint watch and instrument dials was slowly poisoning them.
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America’s War of Independence Was Just One Front in a Global War

America’s War of Independence Was Just One Front in a Global War

The Logan Act and the Devotion of a Revolutionary Wife

Deborah Logan was a well educated woman for her time and could remember listening to the reading of the Declaration of Independence from her family's home near Independence Hall. Her patience may have been strained by the well-meaning husband who inadvertently inspired the Logan Act of 1799.

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Asylums: Enough to Drive Women Crazy

It wasn't that long ago that asylums were a convenient way to dispose of an inconvenient wife.

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Spicing Things Up! The Medieval Luxury Food Trade

Toni Mount is one of my favorite blog guests, so it is my pleasure to welcome her back today with a post to help us survive the medieval world. What can we eat & how do we spice it up?

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Luminous: Now available on Audible

Luminous: The Story of a Radium Girl is now available on audiobook through Audible!