BEN IS BORN IN LEXINGTON 1737 – SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLFELLOWS

As Jews tried to escape Nazi Germany in the 1930s, they faced unthinkable roadblocks in obtaining exit visas. And while they were denied entry in one country after another, a bureaucratic oddity enabled some of them to flee to an unlikely destination: Shanghai, China.In this LATW original commission, playwright Kate McAll used the survivors’ own words to create a narrative of people starting their lives over in a completely new land.Funding for this presentation is provided...

Abby Mann's classic story about the Nuremberg trials, under which German leaders were found guilty of crimes against humanity in 1945 and 1946. Even today, the play remains a shattering indictment of the consequences of unchecked authority and the seductive power of group thought.Includes an audience talkback with Judge Bruce Einhorn, who served at the Justice Department supervising litigation against Nazi war criminals and is currently a professor at Pepperdine University....

Special Sex and Memory IssueBrian Stableford: French Speculative SexFruma Klass: On Knowing Fred PohlMichael Andre-Driussi: American Film on HitlerEmily Hosokawa: Changing Forms of SF SublimityMariano Villareal: The State of Spanish SFMichael Levy on the final Thomas Covenant novelA.P Canavan on Ian Esslemont’s AssailDan’l Danehy-Oakes on Daryl Gregory’s AfterpartyJoe Sanders on Peter Watts’s ...

The rousing Kent family saga continues as Philip Kent fights for his new country alongside the greatest figures of the Revolutionary WarThe engrossing follow-up to The Bastard finds Philip Kent standing as a Continental solider at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In a bold move, Kent has taken up arms for the future of his new family. Spirited and unwavering in his dedication to his adopted homeland, Kent fights in the most violent battles in America’s early his...

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historical novelist, a "full-blooded, heroic, human chronicle . . . of Revolutionary days in Maine . . . a fascinating story" ( The Christian Science Monitor) .Growing up in the rural colony of Arundel, Steven Nason hunted and traded among the Abenaki Indians while helping his family run the local inn. After the woman he has pledged his heart to is suddenly orphaned and ruthlessly abducted, St...

''Northwest Passage'' is widely considered a benchmark of the historical adventure genre for its meticulous research and vivid portrayal of colonial America during the mid-18th century. The story is told through the eyes of Langdon Towne, a young artist and Harvard student who flees trouble in New Hampshire to join the army. The novel is structurally divided into two distinct parts: Part 1: Follows the legendary Major Robert Rogers and his "Rogers' Rangers" on a harrowing expedition agains...

A reporter investigates the truth behind a controversial US Army officer's life and death in this novel from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author.It is 1866, and Sam Morrison, reporter for the St. Louis Herald, is aboard a steamer bound for Fort Standish off the coast of Massachusetts, determined to solve a mystery. The fort is about to be renamed in honor of Charles Rawley, a major who recently died in a fi...

Of all the wars fought in or by America, only one takes its name from a single person.In 1675, when the English hold on New England was still fragile, one Indian, King Philip, organized the seperate Algonquin tribes into one powerful, military force with a single objective - to drive the English settlers back into the sea. King Philip's War almost did just that.For a year Algonquin forces terrorized English settlements. Out of ninety New England towns, fifty-two felt the fero...

The story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming and Montana.

Tappan gazed down upon the newly-born little burro with something of pity and consternation. It was not a vigorous offspring of the redoubtable Jennie, champion of all the numberless burros he had driven in his desert prospecting years. He could not leave it there to die. Surely it was not strong enough to follow its mother. And to kill it was beyond him.

A historical novel about the Seven Years' War, a conflict that shaped a young George Washington decades before the American Revolution.On May 28, 1754, the colonial militia surrounded a party of French-Canadian soldiers. With 15 minutes of rifle fire, the colonists slaughtered the French, then allowed Indian guides to take the corpses' scalps. Observing this grisly scene was a towering young major named George Washington. In the aftermath of the Battle of Jumonville...