Upstate Earth

In my 2012 novel, I imagine a very old Helen Schloss telling her story in Moscow in the late 1960s. She meets a young American fr...

  To mark the 238th anniversary of the Battle of Oriskany this week, my 2007  novel of the events surrounding the battle will be offer...

    This post is by guest writer Helen Gaines. There are a great many names which stand out in the  history of upstate New Y...

“Her Name Was Margarita” is inspired by a series of events involving Fordham College students in the summer of 1966, and of on...

After the British defeat at Saratoga in 1777, and the enemy's retreat from Fort Stanwix, the patriots never again faced a major fo...