Tag: Diversity
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The Devil’s Mile: New York City’s Most Notorious Street, 1910
Take a stroll down Bowery today and you’ll find a range of shops, museums, hotels, and other largely forgettable places. But the Bowery of a hundred years ago was a completely different place. New York may be the city that never sleeps, but the Bowery took that to a whole other level. Both the Bowery…
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The Mysterious Death of Elsie Helair, New York City, 1917
All good mysteries must have a crime. One of the key elements in writing a mystery is getting the crime right—and making it interesting. Often, truth is stranger than fiction. In reading about murders in New York City newspapers in the 1910s (it’s true; writers really do google the wildest things!), I came across an…
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Historical Fiction Shines When It Reflects Our Diverse History
Every February, we celebrate Black History Month. Still, we haven’t yet heard many stories—stories that deserve to be told because they are part of our collective history. Understanding the complexity of the human experience requires inclusivity. Resetting how we learn history As a History major at the University of Texas, I took a writing seminar…
