In Becoming the Mother of Me, Kathryn Adams Doty writes about her career as an actor in the early 1940s andd her marriage to Hugh Beaumont. But it is much more than a light reminiscence of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Doty offers keen psychological insight into her struggles to understand the influence of her father and mother on her life. The book is now available.
Grace Flandrau: Voice Interrupted by Georgia Ray is one of the most acclaimed books of the year in Minnesota. Mary Ann Grossman, book editor for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, wrote: "If you are planning your fall reading, you must put Georgia Ray's elegant new biography . . . at the top of your list. Voice Interrupted is a meticulously researched, lively, compassionate look at the life and work of Flandrau." City Pages declared that "includes all the elements of a great biography: precise prose, complex characters, and extensive footnotes."
Becoming the Mother of Me Kathryn Adams Doty grew up as the daughter of a German Methodist minister. After his untimely death, she tries to come to grips with her father’s wish that she become “a blessing for mankind,” but instead heads to Hollywood. Sometimes forgotten in the long shadow of her father, Kathryn grows to understand and appreciate her mother’s special gifts and deep love and, in doing so, learns to accept herself as well.
Grace Flandrau: Voice Interrupted
Grace Flandrau was a contemporary of F. Scott Fitzgerald, sharing both a hometown--Saint Paul, Minnesota--and an editor, the legendary Maxwell Perkins. She wrote six books and more than four dozen stories. Three works were turned into movies. During her life, she was one of Minnesota's best- known writers.
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War
As a writer, Louisa May Alcott first gained a national reputation during the Civil War. This is the first complete collection of her stories based on the war and includes Hospital Sketches, a novel based on her experience as a nurse, and excerpts from her wartime journals.
The Indians' Revenge
Reverend Alexander Berghold gathered the history of the U.S.-Dakota Conflict of 1862 from neighbors in his parish of New Ulm, Minnesota. His book, first published in the 1890s, is one of the most significant original sources, told with compassion for both sides.
Wild Orphan
When hard times force her mother to take a night job, Elizabeth Eibers is placed in an orphanage in rural Missouri. There, she suffers under the strict discipline of Father Gastmann, but finds solace in her growing friendship with Georgiana, a tough “wild” orphan.
Pauline Cushman: Spy of the Cumberland
Pauline Cushman, actress, is transformed by her service for the Union Army in 1863 into the role of the Spy of the Cumberland-- a "script" based on fact and myth. Her journey takes her from P. T. Barnum's show to the Old West.
Turn Backward O Time: The Civil War Diary of Amanda Shelton
Amanda Shelton, age twenty, left Iowa in 1864 to serve as a nurse for the Union. Her diary describes her work and her growing understanding of social and professional relationships. Editor Kathleen Hanson adds an insightful introduction and comprehensive notes.
A Long Year of Silence
When the United States enters World War I in 1917, Emma Altenberg's world is turned upside down. Anti-German hysteria sweeps through Minnesota, disrupting the lives of friends and family. A new historical novel by Kathryn Adams Doty.
Gettysburg & the Christian Commission
The book includes important contemporary accounts of the battle’s aftermath, including the first complete publication of the diary of John Calhoun Chamberlain, one of the first delegates at Gettysburg and brother of the hero of Little Round Top.
My Heart Toward Home: Letters of a Family
This collection of family letters tells the story of one of the Civil War's most remarkable families -- the Woolseys of New York. Georgeanna, Eliza, Jane, and Caroline serve as nurses. Their mother heads to Gettysburg after the battle. When the war ended, three sisters help to shape the future of the nursing profession.
Daily Except Sundays
The diaries of Philip T. Adams, an engineman on the Essex branch of the Eastern Railroad, open windows into history, recording the day-to-day operations of the railroad, glimpses of life in Essex, Massachusetts, and a look into the life of Philip Adams and his family.
