Nation’s only History Book Festival returns to Lewes, DE

I had the great privilege of presenting at the 2017 History Book Festival. It was an absolute delight. The organizers and hosts were extraordinarily hospitable, the events were well attended and lively, the audience was bubbling over with questions. Overall, it was a terrific and memorable experience. Great start! And, to top it off, the town of Lewes is lovely.

— Geoffrey Stone, Sex & the Constitution: Sex, Religion, & Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century (2017)

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The nation’s only History Book Festival returns to Lewes, DE., for its second year.

History Book Festival Speakers

Friday Sept. 28^th& Saturday Sept. 29^th

KEYNOTE (Friday Evening Sept. 28^th / tickets here)

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Eleanor Roosevet: The War Years & After, 1939-1962 (vol. 3)

→ Interviewed by Paul Sparrow, Director of the FDR Library

→ Musical accompaniment by David Cieri, composer for the Ken Burns documentary on FDR

_________________Saturday Sept. 29^th_________________

— Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell

— Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity by Nick Bunker

— The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France by Daniel de Visé

— Valley Forge by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin,

— Dinner in Camelot: The Night America’s Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House by Joseph A. Esposito

— Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler,

— The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetic, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman

— The Lost Locket of Lewes (children’s historical fiction) by Ilona E. Holland, Ed.D

— Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York by Stacy Horn

— Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food by Roger Horowitz

— The Hunger (historical fiction), by Alma Katsu

— The Kennedy Debutante (historical fiction) by Kerri Maher

— The Widows of Malabar Hill (historical fiction) by Sujata Massey

— Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army by Eugene L. Meyer

— The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization by Nicholas P. Money

— Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America’s Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Service Who Brought Them to Justice by William Oldfield and Victoria Bruce

— Delaware’s John Dickinson: The Constant Watchman of Liberty

— Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island by Earl Swift

—Miles and Me by Quincy Troupe

— Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock by Amy Werbel

— Not Our Kind (historical fiction) by Kitty Zeldis