by Kate Dolan | Aug 1, 2026 | Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History, Romans, Servants, Uncategorized
Have you ever seen a colonial American house with fake windows? Or a building with very few windows? You may be told that people did that to avoid the British window tax. That’s not accurate, but when you learn about the creative ways that governments have tried to...
by Kate Dolan | Jul 4, 2026 | Colonial America, Holidays, Latest Posts, Living History
Today we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s independence. It wasn’t achieved in a single day. The Declaration of Independence wasn’t even signed in one day—and it wasn’t on July 4, either. But a celebration needs to be limited or it loses its effect and...
by Kate Dolan | May 31, 2026 | 19th Century America, Camping with History, Colonial America, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History, Travel
This was our fourth stay at this park, and I was determined I wasn’t going to write about history at this one. It’s not one of Florida’s older parks, and the only historical sites I remembered were the remains of the homestead of a cattle driver from...
by Kate Dolan | Apr 4, 2026 | 19th Century America, Faith, Holidays, Regency
I’ve written four short novels and tons of blogs that center on Christmas traditions in Regency England, but I never even considered what Easter might have been like. What were Jane Austen and her contemporaries doing to celebrate the holiday? I was pretty sure she...
by Kate Dolan | Mar 14, 2026 | Colonial America, Faith, Holidays, Latest Posts, Living History, The Irish
New York is generally considered to hold the world’s largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade. And they claim to be the oldest as well. But they’re not even close to holding that title. The first recorded St. Patrick’s Day parade was not in Boston, even though that city has...
