Especially for Educators: “Trading Places: Connecting Story Elements Across Texts and Time” from Beth Anderson and Vivian Kirkfield

Don’t you wonder sometimes if historical figures in the same time period knew each other? or knew about each other? I thought about that a lot when I was working on stories of Prudence Wright and Deborah Sampson. They lived in the same colony, at the same time, both animated by the revolutionary spirit. With our upcoming new releases, author Vivian Kirkfield and I couldn’t help but wonder if suffragist and abolitionist Lucy Stone and Pinkerton detective Kate Warne ever crossed paths or knew abou...