Historical fiction Quote by Bert J. Hubinger

“Huzzah! Free Trade and Sailors' Rights! But instead American ships are captured and sailors impressed by the thousands into the British Navy, becoming slaves…

— Bert J. Hubinger

“[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.”

— Randy Alcorn

“Despite his failings she couldn’t shun Nathanael, she was too fond of fleshly delight. He kept her belly large, pumping her full of child…

— Noah Gordon

“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526…

— Saidiya Hartman

“I looked out the window and saw the street and railroad tracks, the woods beyond. Beyond the woods, the county of which they were…

— Kevin Powers

“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

— Nikita Allgire

“One pioneer remembered seeing “an open bleak prairie, the cold wind howling overhead…a new-made grave, a woman and three children sitting near by, a…

— Gail Collins

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered,…

— James F. Cooper

“people who were polite to his mistress. Lloyd George spoke to the group. “That German ship delivered the guns to Mexico after all. It…

— Ken Follett

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

— Alice Morse Earle

“Scholars have estimated that by 1850, the aboriginal population in North America—besieged by the invaders’ explosive weaponry, wondrous technology, contemptuous cruelty, and irresistible pathogens,…

— Richard Kluger

“In 1634, smallpox and influenza ravaged both the Indians and the English in the region. William Brewster, whose family had managed to survive the…

— Nathaniel Philbrick