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This November 11 marks Veterans Day, a celebration of the men and women who have served and are currently serving. The day marks the armisti

Press Release - Author Jody Fergsuon Above the Water

Above the Water is now available for purchase!

Historical fiction author, Jody Ferguson shares a "Behind the Pages" look at his new book.

Long before the world was connected as intimately as the world wide web allows in modern day, news was shared at the "picture show."

Austin, Texas-based author, Jody Ferguson shares why August 1937 was beginning of the second world war. Above the Water is set in the...

I visited Shanghai for the first time in May 1992, as China was emerging from the onslaught of international opprobrium...

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...

Seventy-five years ago today on June 23, 1945, U.S. Marine and Army forces captured Okinawa.

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

People often ask me, “What’s the most interesting/fun/charming/recommended country you have visited?”

A New Chapter Begins

My father’s mother was a Linscott. Her family came to the New World and settled in Maine in the 1600s.

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

Reading great novels teaches us so much about humans, with all of the accompanying beauty and warts. History books do the same...

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