history - Derinda Babcock

Tying the Past to the Present: A Different Lens

September 2, 2016 by Derinda Babcock

Tying the Past to the Present: Looking Through the Lens of History to Learn Lessons for Today This is the theme of my website–its raison d’être. When the site first went up, I said the “Past, recent, and present history is included in this website’s definition of HIStory. The purpose is to inform, encourage, and entertain.” Though I am interested in historical information garnered while researching for my novels, I’m more interested to learn how lessons from the past, recent or distant, can be applied to my life today. What can I learn from people who lived centuries before me? Did they struggle with …

July: Pausing to Remember History

June 30, 2015 by Derinda Babcock

What images do you see when someone says July 4th? Do you think of picnics, fireworks, wars, old documents, or something else? As a reader and writer of historical fiction, here is what comes to my mind. July 3, 1775 George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. The first battles of the American Revolution occurred in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. (Aril 19, 1775). People living in the Thirteen Colonies rebelled against the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. July 4, 1776 The Declaration of Independence is …

CURIOUS GEORGE GOES TO HIGH SCHOOL

March 5, 2014 by Derinda Babcock

CURIOUS GEORGE VISITS ROBERT LOGAN’S HISTORY CLASSES Robert Logan is a history teacher at Durango High School in Durango, Colorado. Several years ago, I attended his class to help with some of the English Language Learners, and it was here I developed an interest in the past. This led to my desire to write historical fiction. When I went to school, history was a subject I endured in order to meet graduation requirements. The other students and I sat in straight rows, faces forward, and listened to an hour of lecture. We had to read chapters in a boring history …