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David O. Stewart on The Burning Land
The historian and novelist talks about his continuing trilogy tracing the history of the United States.
The New Land, the first novel in The Overstreet Saga, is set during the 1750s on the Maine coast, USA. What excited you to write about this period of upheaval in history? It was a time of great challenges and great potential. For German settlers like the Overstreets,...
George Washington, by David O. Stewart
A new biography is highly readable.
David O. Stewart revisits Washington’s political career with two objectives. Half his book examines his subject’s personal and political development before 1775 to show how Washington developed impressive political skills and a clear political agenda. Although most of...
Historical Heroes: George Washington – Commander-in-Chief
George Washington is known for his military achievements but he served longer as a politician.
George Washington - Commander-in-Chief As he entered Philadelphia on May 9, 1775, to attend the American colonies’ Second Continental Congress, Washington brought his Virginia militia uniform and six copies of the British Army’s standard drill manual to help him train...
David O. Stewart on The New Land
The historian and novelist talks trilogies, family history, and the unending allure of the past.
Attorney and award-winning author David O. Stewart, the Independent’s former president, has long written about history in both nonfiction works and novels. What’s unusual this time around is that his latest book, The New Land, was partly inspired by his own ancestors,...
The Compromise of 1790
The Compromise allowed for the founding of the new nation's capital, Washington D.C.
In one of Lin Manuel Miranda’s catchiest tunes in the musical Hamilton, Hamilton’s doppelganger Aaron Burr sings longingly about being in “the room where it happens,” on the inside, shaping momentous actions. Anyone who has spent time around political types will...
Pandemics & Politics
The impact of disease has had a major impact throughout history, and Covid will with us.
The numbers are grim. Worldwide, nearly five million have contracted Covid-19; nearly 320,000 have died from it. Public health experts caution that those numbers are certainly undercounts. Some deaths are mistakenly attributed to underlying conditions, not...
James Madison: President of Fun
The social life of America's fourth president and his wife make Boris Johnson's party culture seem funereal in comparison
She looked like royalty, or so thought many guests at the sight of Dolley Madison in her velvet inaugural gown and velvet and white satin turban with towering bird-of-paradise feathers. In full naval regalia, the head of the Navy Yard led her into the hall at Long’s...
David O. Stewart
David discusses history, his inspiring history books and his research approach
David O. Stewart, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? I’ve done five books – four histories and one novel – on the American Founding era (1770-1815), beginning with our Constitutional Convention (The Summer of 1787). It is an...
American Gibraltar: The Fortress at Louisbourg
The Fortress of Louisbourg was a prize the British lusted after during the Seven Years War, but was this the first possession that would lead to the loss of the 13 colonies?
With the declaration of war against France in 1756, British military planners turned covetous eyes to a fortress on Cape Breton Island, next to Nova Scotia in the North Atlantic. The fortress at Louisbourg, sometimes called the “Gibraltar of the North,” cast a long...