![]() These wonderful books transported me to those times and made them real. ![]() The more true to history the events were, the surer I was that this was great writing.īut, I had conflicted feelings because there was another body of literature that I also loved, what I call fiction from history, the contemporary fiction from times before I was alive. I loved the way authors could interweave real events with their fictional characters. That high school English course changed my perspective on literature, and on the interplay of history and novels. And let there be no question, the results lived up to my expectations. ![]() This new eleventh year English course was designed in my personal heaven. Yankee all the way.īy then, Junior year, I was an avid reader and a lover of history. ![]() At an old New England boarding school there was no War Between the States and certainly no War of Northern Succession. It was, the school administration assured us students, a new idea: combining American history and English into one course, which would focus on The Civil War. Today’s guest blog post is brought to you by Kenneth Weene. ![]()
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