Author: Nichole Louise

Nichole Louise received a BA in Integrative Arts with a minor in History from Pennsylvania State University and an MFA in Creative Writing (Thesis with Distinction) from Rosemont College. She has published articles and short stories, and runs her own historical fiction book review website (www.nicholelouise.com). She also writes historical fiction, often taking inspiration from the city of Philadelphia in which she lives.

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Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

BOOK REVIEW: Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Chloe Wigston Smith (Yale University Press) Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Chloe Wigston Smith details how processes and objects of the domestic life were inherently intertwined with colonialism. Smith argues that while white women […]

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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

BOOK REVIEW: The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journey Through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023) The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley by David Waldstreicher details the short but extraordinary life of Phillis Wheatley, a poet of the American Revolution years. Kidnapped from West Africa as a child and […]

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Museum of the American Revolution: Dichotomy of a Fledgling Nation

Walking into the Museum of the American Revolution’s spacious rotunda, museum patrons will be met with polished terrazzo floors and an elegant curling staircase illuminated with the natural light from the George Washington standard flag six-pointed star skylight. At the start of the Museum experience, an orientation video depicts differing perspectives from founding mother Abigail […]

by Nichole Louise