Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Beginning Oct. 16, I will be reading John Fabian Witt ’s book “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended Am...

"Bernice Bobs Her Hair," F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story published in the May 1, 1920, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. I...

In my novel manuscript, “Zeppelins over Denver,” three sisters from Ohio travel west in the summer of 1919. Their first goal is to negotiate...

A recommendation letter written on official stationery from United States Post-Office No. 18859, Mason, Ohio: July 27, 1914 To Whom It M...

For my novel set in 1919 Denver, I've conducted research on World War I, women's suffrage, Prohibition, transportation, and the Flu ...

Every so often, I pick up a book that I can't put down. "The Winter Soldier" by Daniel Mason is one of them. I hadn't hear...

I am coming to the end of a first draft of a novel set in 1919 Denver. I wasn't around then so I've done a lot of research to get a ...

The war was World War I or The Great War, as it was known before there was a second installment to worldwide slaughter. In the village of Ry...

From Metro News in the U.K.: As we approach the centenary of the Armistice on November 11, the Imperial War Museum has released a rec...

Genealogy once was the province of  retirees, Mormons, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Young people didn't care because, w...

I first saw "Birth of a Nation" in a college film class 43 years ago. I had some electives to burn in my pursuit of a degree in En...

The lakeside promenade in Denver's City Park, 1919. From the Colorado page on the  Penny Postcard web site.  After driving around D...