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Kimberly B. Sherman, Ph.D.

Historian, Writer, and Educator

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Posted on July 14, 2020July 10, 2020

The Woman at the Window PART II

This post is part of series on recent family history research I've been working on and some of the methods that family historians and genealogists use. If you'd like to learn more about your own family history but don't know where to start, you can find out more here. In Part I of this story, …

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Posted on July 7, 2020July 3, 2020

The Woman at the Window PART I

This post is part of series on recent family history research I've been working on and some of the methods that family historians and genealogists use. If you'd like to learn more about your own family history but don't know where to start, you can find out more here. Bellevue Cemetery is situated on the …

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Posted on February 13, 2020July 3, 2020

Will you be my 18th century Valentine?

It's recently been estimated that Americans spend $19.5 billion on Valentine's Day. Whether you go all in or prefer to recast the holiday as "Singles Awareness Day," people have been baring their heart and soul through love notes for centuries. In early America, as long as quill, ink, and paper were on hand -- one …

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Posted on February 4, 2020

Making space [for writing.]

"If I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something."Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (2015) Is there such a thing as a creative hangover? A creative drought, perhaps? These were the things rolling about in my mind as I sat down a few weeks ago to write -- …

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Posted on December 18, 2019March 21, 2020

“Thistle Among the Pines”

This month I contributed my first byline to Salt magazine here in Wilmington, NC. Check out the full article on Flora MacDonald and crew at "Thistle Among the Pines: Flora MacDonald and the Highland Scots of the Cape Fear."

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