Colonial Gothic Organizations: The Templars

From Parzival through Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade to The da Vinci Code, the Knights Templar have had an enduring hold over the popular imagination. At dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307, they went from being one of the most powerful organizations in medieval Europe to prisoners and fugitives. They were questioned under torture and their leaders were execute...   [click here for more]

Colonial Gothic: New France

France and England have always been rivals.As it has always been in Europe, so it is in America. From Quebec to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Delta, New France offers a constant challenge to the British colonies. French troops garrison Quebec and Montreal. French forts dot the interior. French Louisiana – in theory, at least – extends from the Appalachians to ...   [click here for more]

Colonial Gothic: The French & Indian War

IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME.

A time when Washington was a militia colonel.

A time when Franklin was best known as a scientist. A time when Bostonians drank tea.

A time when the British were the good guys.

Welcome to a new era for COLONIAL GOTHIC, as the pages of history are tuned back to a time prior to the American Revolution. In THE FRENCH AND ...   [click here for more]

Flames of Freedom: The Philadelphia Affair

Spring, 1776. Boston is free. The Second Continental Congress works to create a new nation. But as they debate, shadowy forces prepare to strike back.Welcome to Philadelphia.William Penn's model city is one of the richest in the Thirteen Colonies. It stands at the heart of the Revolution. Home to book shops, thinkers, and a growing intellectual class, the city hides those with knowledge of a mo...   [click here for more]