The First Town in the First State Hosts the First History Book Festival

October 6 - 7, 2017Lewes, Delaware

The History Book Festival was created as a non-profit event by volunteers under the Greater Lewes Foundation.

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A message from the co-chairs,

Welcome to the History Book Festival, the only one of its kind in the nation. As you will see, a host of acclaimed and best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors are participating in the Festival along with noted individuals who will serve as moderators.

The Festival is a non-profit organization. It has been two years in the making and is the product of the sustained efforts of a dedicated volunteer group. In many ways, it has been a community effort, one made possible by civic, religious, and business groups committed to making the Festival a proud part of our city’s life.

Why a history book festival? There are three reasons. First, we wanted to offer up something different from anywhere else in the nation. Second, it seemed a natural fit for us since Lewes was the first town in the first state – history is one of our main assets. Third, there was a civic reason: an informed citizenry can never be too knowledgeable about its past, both its glorious and inglorious moments. The Festival will be an annual event. We hope its debut will engage and enlighten our attendees so as to make history come alive in ways that invite active participation.

Much effort has gone into making our selection of topics and authors diverse. Thus, there is likely to be something to appeal to almost all tastes, whether you are interested in war (the Civil War or the first two World Wars), racial justice, religious history, sex and the Constitution, art and music, local history, or even baseball or gardening. And yes, we have local authors, historical fiction and historical mystery books along with something for young adults.

So join us in making the Festival all that it can be. In other words, help us make history by making the History Book Festival a memorable and lasting one.

Jen Mason & Ronald Collins (co-chairs)

History Book Festival organizers

Ron CollinsJen MasonMatt AshRuth Cohen

Jim CurtisLinda DyllaRebecca LoweTom Owen

Joan RussoTom ThunstromPeter Zoll

HISTORY BOOK FESTIVAL AND BOOK SIGNING LOCATIONS

St. Peter’s Church2nd and Market StreetLewes, DE 19958

Festival Shuttle Location and Presentation Locations

Lewes Presbyterian Church (Festival Location)133 Kings Highway

Lewes Presbyterian Church 133 Kings HighwayLewes, DE 19958

St. Peter’s Church (Festival Location)2nd and Market Street

Lewes Public Library111 Adams AveLewes, DE 19958

Lewes Public Library (Festival Location & additional Book Signings)111 Adams Ave

Margaret H. Rollins Community Center RoomAdams Ave and Kings HighwayLewes, DE 19958

Margaret H. Rollins Community Center Room(Festival Location)Adams Ave. and Kings Highway

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History Book

Festival2018

September, 28th - 29th

Saturday, October 7 ScheduleAuthors will sign their book after their presentation.

Lewes Presbyterian Church

9–10 a.m. A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation, Craig Harline, author (non-fiction)

10:30–11:30 a.m. Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend, Meryl Gordon, author, Holly Shimizu, interviewer (non-fiction)

1:30–2:30 p.m. America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History, Margaret Wagner, author, Laurie Fulton, interviewer (non-fiction)

3–4 p.m. Olive Rush: Finding Her Place in the Santa Fe Art Colony, Jann Haynes Gilmore, author (non-fiction)

4:30–5:30 p.m. Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons, Elizabeth Brown Pryor, author, Beverly Brown, presenter (non-fiction)

Margaret H. Rollins Community Center Community Room

9–10 a.m. Revolutionary Delaware, Kim Rogers Burdick, author, and Delaware’s Destiny Determined by Lewes, Randy J. Holland, author, Mike DiPaulo, interviewer (non-fiction)

10:30–11:30 a.m. The Babe Ruth Deception, David O. Stewart, author (fiction)

3–4 p.m. Suspect Red, L. M. Elliott, author (fiction)

4:30–5:30 p.m. Lilli De Jong: A Novel, Janet Benton, author (fiction)

Lewes Public Library

9–10 a.m. The Pirate Next Door: The Untold Story of Eighteenth Century Pirates’ Wives, Families and Communities, Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos, author (non-fiction)

10:30–11:30 a.m. Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century, Geoffrey Stone, author, Thomas Ambro, interviewer (non-fiction)

3–4 p.m. The German Girl: A Novel, Armando Lucas Correa, author (fiction)

4:30–5:30 p.m. Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats and Drugs, Martin Torgoff, author (non-fiction), co-sponsored by the Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

9–10 a.m. The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family’s Quest to Bring Him Home, Sally Mott Freeman, author, Edwin S. Grosvenor, interviewer (non-fiction)

10:30–11:30 a.m. Racing the Devil: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery, and A Casualty of War: A Bess Crawford Mystery, Charles and Caroline Todd, authors (fiction)

Noon–1 p.m. Allegiance, Kermit Roosevelt, III, author (fiction)

1:30–2:30 p.m. 42 Faith: The Rest of The Jackie Robinson Story, Ed Henry, author (non-fiction)

3–4 p.m. The Making of ‘Black Lives Matter’: A Brief History of an Idea, Christopher Lebron, author (non-fiction)

Saturday, October 7 Additional Book Signing Schedule

Authors will also sign books immediately following their presentions.

All books to be signed must be purchased at Bibilion or Browseabout Books.If you purchased your book elsewhere, you may buy a $10 bookmark entitling you to have your book signed by the author.

Time

10 a.m.

11 a.m.

12 p.m.

1 p.m.

2 p.m.

3 p.m.

4 p.m.

Lewes Public Library

Margaret WgnerEd Henry

Beverly Louise Brown(for Elizabeth Brown Pryor)Armando Lucas Correa

Jann Haynes GilmoreL. M. Elliott

Kim Rogers BurdickRandy J. HollandJoanne Guilfoil (Local Author)Christopher J. LebronJames Swanson

David O. StewartMichael Morgan (Local Author)Martin TorgoffCharles and Caroline Todd

Daphne P. GeanacopoulosJames Curtis (Local Author)Kermit Roosevelt, III

Craig HarlineMeryl Gordon

L.M. Elliott is a New York Times bestselling author most known for Under a War-torn Sky (Disney-Hyperion, 2003), the story of a B-24 bomber pilot and the French Resistance, now in its 14th reprinting. Her historical novel, Da Vinci’s Tiger (HarperCollins, 2015), received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Her latest book is Suspect Red (Disney-Hyperion, 2017).

Janet Benton’s Lilli de Jong: A Novel (Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 2017) is her first book. After working at magazines, newspapers, and publishers and teaching writing at four universities, she began The Word Studio (www.thewordstudio.us) to offer workshops and mentoring to writers.

Author Biographies

Kim Rogers Burdick is the founder and chairman of the American Revolution Round Table of Northern Delaware. Kim has served both as chairman of the Delaware Human-ities Council and as a member of the board of advisors of the National Trust for Historic Preservation..

Armando Lucas Correa is an award-winning journalist, author and editor-in-chief of People in Español, the top selling Hispanic magazine in the United States. In 1988, Correa was appointed the editor of Tablas, a national theater and dance magazine based in Havana. Correa is the author of The German Girl: A Novel (Atria Books, 2016).

Meryl Gordon is author of the New York Times bestselling Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond (2008). Her book The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark (2014) was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Her latest book is Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend (Grand Central Publishing, 2017).

Sally Mott Freeman has been a speechwriter and media and public relations executive for 25 years. She is currently board chair of The Writer’s Center, the premier independent literary center in the mid-Atlantic. The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family’s Quest to Bring Him Home (Simon & Schuster, 2017), is her first book.

Author Biographies

Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos is the author of The Pirate Next Door: The Untold Story of Eighteenth Century Pirates’ Wives, Families and Communities (Carolina Academic Press, 2017). She is an historian and journalist, and has published over 40 articles in newspapers and magazines. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and many other publications.

Jann Haynes Gilmore received a Ph.D. in American art, architecture and landscape history. She directed the Museums and Historical Organizations Program, National Endowment for the Humanities. Her latest book is Olive Rush: Finding Her Place in the Santa Fe Art Colony (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2016).

Christopher J. Lebron is an associate professor in philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he was a member of Yale University’s African-American studies and philosophy departments. He is the author of The Making of ‘Black Lives Matter’: A Brief History of an Idea (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Craig Harline is a professor of history at Brigham Young University. He teaches courses on the Reformation, the History of Civilization, History of Christianity, and such seminars as “Miracles” and “Toleration and Persecution.” His latest book is A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Author Biographies

Ed Henry is an American broadcast journalist and chief national correspondent for Fox News Channel. Henry has won numerous journalism honors including the White House Correspondents Association’s Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential coverage. He is the author of 42 Faith: The Rest of the Jackie Robinson Story (Thomas Nelson, 2017).

Randy J. Holland is a retired justice of the Delaware Supreme Court. He is the author or editor of nine books, including: Delaware’s Destiny Determined by Lewes (Delaware Heritage Press, 2013), a legal history of Delaware and the feud between Lord Baltimore and William Penn.

Geoffrey Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago. He is the author of Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century (Liveright, 2017), and Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (W.W. Norton, 2005).

Elizabeth Brown Pryor (1951–2015) was an award-winning historian who served as a senior foreign officer in the State Department. In 2008, Pryor was awarded multiple prizes for Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters. She was also author of Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons (Viking, 2017). Beverly Brown, the sister of Elizabeth Pryor, will speak about Pryor’s last book.

Author Biographies

Kermit Roosevelt, III is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the great-great grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt and is a distant cousin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His second novel, Allegiance, (Regan Arts, 2015) was a Harper Lee Prize finalist.

David O. Stewart is a lawyer and author. His latest novel is The Babe Ruth Deception (Kingston, 2017). His nonfiction books, all published by Simon and Schuster, include American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America (2011) and Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy (2009).

Margaret Wagner is a senior writer/editor at the Publishing Office of the Library of Congress. She is co-author of two major reference works, The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference (Simon & Schuster, 2002) and The Library of Congress World War II Companion (Simon & Schuster, 2007). Her latest book is America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History (Bloomsbury Press, 2017).

James Swanson is an American author and historian known for his New York Times bestseller Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer (HarperCollins, 2007), for which he earned an Edgar Award. He has held a number of government and think-tank posts in Washington, D.C. He serves on the advisory council of the Ford’s Theatre Society and is a member of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

Author Biographies

Charles and Caroline Todd are a mother-and-son writing team with more than 25 historical mysteries. They are best known for two WWI-era series: Bess Crawford and Inspector Ian Rutledge. Their latest books are A Casualty of War: A Bess Crawford Mystery (William Morrow, 2017) and Racing the Devil: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery (William Morrow, 2017).

Martin Torgoff is an award-winning journalist, an author of prize-winning and best-selling books, a documentary filmmaker and Emmy-nominated television writer, and a director and producer. His latest book is Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats and Drugs (Da Capo Press, 2017).

Thomas Ambro is a Judge at the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court, the American Law Institute and the National Bankruptcy Conference.

Michael DiPaolo is the executive director of the Lewes Historical Society since 2001. He serves on the board of the Delaware Heritage Commission.

Edwin S. Grosvenor is a writer, photographer, and President and Editor-in-Chief of American Heritage. He is best known for writing two books about his great-grandfather, Alexander Graham Bell.

Laurie Susan Fulton is a former U.S. ambassador to Denmark. Ambassador Fulton is a member of the Diplomatic Advisory Board for the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission.

Holly Shimizu is an award winning horticulturalist and former executive director of the United States Botanic Garden as well as a PBS host of Victory Garden for 12 years.

Interviewers

“In this brilliant followup to his path-breaking and well received study of FSA photography of the Great Depression, Curtis provides a meticulous examination of War Relocation photographs of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. He decodes these images with precise insight, showing how the work of WRA photographers served the government’s needs for effective visual propaganda to justify the evacuation and prove that the internees were being humanely treated in their confinement. Curtis demonstrates that this pictorial campaign, although mounted with the best of intentions nevertheless reflected pervasive historic beliefs in the inferiority of Japanese Americans.”

Lewis L. Gould, author of The Republicans: A History of the Grand Old Party (2014).

Discriminating Views is available at Biblion Books in Lewes, and at the author’s website jamesccurtis.com. Autographed copies will also be available at the History Book Festival in Lewes.

Early praise for Discriminating Views, by James C. Curtis, Professor Emeritus of History

at the University of Delaware:

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Thank you to the many volunteers who have made the History Book Festival a new community tradition.

Thank you to all of our donors who have made this event possible!

Presenting Founder ($10,000+)Delaware Humanities

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Keynote Founder ($5,000+)The Schell Families

Platinum Founder ($2,500+)Biblion

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Ronald Collins and Susan CohenJen Mason and Clare HancockJoan Russo and Donald Burset

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Gold Founder ($1,000+)Carole and Matt AshRick and Paulise Bell

Coast to Coast PrintingJames and Susan Curtis

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Bronze Founder ($250+)Larry W. Fifer

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