Journeys | Jody Ferguson Blog

This weekend will see the renewal of a heated college football rivalry dating back to 1894. The Texas Longhorns travel to Fayetteville to...

I make no claim to know all of the best novels that have been made into films. To do so would be as spurious a claim as saying I’ve read...

While recently watching the Netflix series “The Crown” I was delighted to see a segment where Queen Elizabeth, in a Christmas address to...

A painter that I greatly admire is Tom Lea, a native Texan who lived all his life in El Paso.

Tomorrow will mark the 121st game between Army and Navy on the gridiron. They have met every year since 1890, apart from two separate...

It is a book that leads the reader down a path leading to closed doors and blind alleys.

In his history The Last Kings of Shanghai, Jonathan Kaufman, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from The Boston Globe recounts the story

James Carter, an historian at St. Joseph’s University, takes us into the horse racing world of antebellum Shanghai...

I wrote recently in my novel Above the Water, "the most dangerous times during a war are at the end. That is when the discipline that has...

In his book Priscilla, The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France the English novelist Nicholas Shakespeare...

Paul French, whose first book Midnight in Peking became a New York Times bestseller, explores a topic dear to me in his latest book...

Stephen Harrigan's novel Remember Ben Clayton is a beautiful tale of family, war, art and perseverance.

Imperial Twilight dissects the causes of the First Opium War between Great Britain and the Qing Dynasty in China in the 1840s.

Mark Obmascik relates a beautiful wartime tale in his book The Storm On Our Shores.

Fitzroy Maclean was an adventurer, a gentleman, a scholar, a diplomat, a warrior, and a hero.

His book, Forgotten Ally, is a history of China’s role in the war, which for China began in 1937, four years before Pearl Harbor.

In his autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun J.G. Ballard tells us how he survived his adolescent years alone in an internment camp...

I recently re-read the novel The Wild Palms by William Faulkner, which he published in 1939.

In her book The Opium Wars British academic Julia Lovell describes both the historical and the contemporary Chinese distrust of the West...

The focus of Gwynne’s book is Quanah Parker, the last wartime Comanche chief, who ironically was the son of Cynthia Parker...