The research for my historical fiction always involves many enjoyable visits to the Wisconsin Historical Society on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison. The sources that most informed this work include: William Appleton, Selections from the Diaries of William Appleton, 1786-1862 (Boston: Merrymount Press, 1922); Charles C. Calhoun, Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004); Robert Ferguson, America During and After the War (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866); Andrew Hilen, “Charley Longfellow Goes to War,” Harvard Library Bulletin, XIV, Nos. 1 and 2 (Winter and Spring 1960), 59-81, 283-303; Christoph Irmscher, Longfellow Redux (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006); Christoph Irmscher, Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200 (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume IV, ed. Andrew Hilen (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1972); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems & Other Writings ed. J. D. McClatchy (New York: The Library of America, 2000); Samuel Longfellow, Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Extracts from His Journals and Correspondence (Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886); Thomas H. O’Connor, Civil War Boston (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997); Charles Sumner, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner ed. Edward L. Pierce (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893).
I also relied upon several excellent online resources while researching and writing Christmas Bells, including the National Park Service’s website for Longfellow House (http://www.nps.gov/long/index.htm), Genealogybank.com’s archive of digitized historic newspapers (http://genealogybank.com), the website of the University of Notre Dame (http://nd.edu), and the website of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC (http://www.dcpriest.org).
The research for my historical fiction always involves many enjoyable visits to the Wisconsin Historical Society on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison. The sources that most informed this work include: William Appleton, Selections from the Diaries of William Appleton, 1786-1862 (Boston: Merrymount Press, 1922); Charles C. Calhoun, Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004); Robert Ferguson, America During and After the War (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866); Andrew Hilen, “Charley Longfellow Goes to War,” Harvard Library Bulletin, XIV, Nos. 1 and 2 (Winter and Spring 1960), 59-81, 283-303; Christoph Irmscher, Longfellow Redux (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006); Christoph Irmscher, Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200 (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume IV, ed. Andrew Hilen (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1972); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems & Other Writings ed. J. D. McClatchy (New York: The Library of America, 2000); Samuel Longfellow, Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Extracts from His Journals and Correspondence (Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886); Thomas H. O’Connor, Civil War Boston (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997); Charles Sumner, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner ed. Edward L. Pierce (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893).
I also relied upon several excellent online resources while researching and writing Christmas Bells, including the National Park Service’s website for Longfellow House (http://www.nps.gov/long/index.htm), Genealogybank.com’s archive of digitized historic newspapers (http://genealogybank.com), the website of the University of Notre Dame (http://nd.edu), and the website of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC (http://www.dcpriest.org).