*  A Note from Nancy  *   On this Veterans Day we thank all our veterans who have served to protect and defend our country.  My fami...

If you were an immigrant traveling to America via New York city in the last half of the nineteenth century, New York might have been but a p...

Everyone’s heard of Ellis Island. It was the gateway to New York City, to America. Twelve millions immigrants passed through its gates from ...

We’ve all heard about the Titanic’s fateful voyage. But that was 1912. My novel, Masquerade, is set in 1886. So how did people cross the oce...

When I was a child . . . Don't get me started or I'll end up sounding like a Dickens' novel. But honestly, when I was a child I ...