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Harry Turtledove, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the Beatles

Posted on December 11, 2017 by stephendavis

You’ve got Turtledove’s Fort Pillow (2006)? Turn to page 140, and a Tennessee cavalryman cries, “Get back, Jojo!” …which has led me over these years to wonder if the esteemed author sprinkles a Beatles lyrics line into his other novels—alternative fiction, science … Continue reading →

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Telling History vs. Making Art: Fictions and Histories

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Chris Mackowski

Final part of a series “[H]istory and historical fiction,” says historian Paul Ashdown, “are alternate ways of telling stories about the past.”[1] In that context, Ulysses S. Grant spoke more truth than he realized when he said “Wars produce many … Continue reading →

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