This episode is sponsored by Barbara Sontheimer, author of the novel Victor’s Blessings: A meticulously researched tale of a half-Osage Union soldier, torn between honor, duty and perhaps the most difficult human emotion of all... forgiveness.

Season 5, Episode 5 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast features Emily Hourican, author of Mummy Darlings and the Glorious Guiness Girls novels series. During the interview, host Colin Mustful talks with Hourican about relying on fictional characters to provide more history to the reader, using her background as a journalist to provide an objective, impartial view of the past, and her experience turning out a book a year writing commercial fiction. Don’t miss it!

Season 5, Episode 4 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast features an interview with Colin Mustful, author of the novel Reclaiming Mni Sota, with special guest host Stephanie Landsem. During the interview, Landsem talks with Mustful about what inspired his years of research on the U.S. - Dakota War, the work he did in order to convey Dakota and Ojibwe history and culture, and the literary diversity initiative he’s started in order to raise $10,000 for one Indigenous writer from Minnesota. Don’t miss it!

Season 5, Episode 3 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast features Tracey D. Buchanan, author of the novel Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace. During the interview, host Colin Mustful talks with Buchanan her love for her hometown of Paducah, Kentucky, the ghost tours that inspired her novel, and the challenges of going from journalist to a fiction writer. Don’t miss it!

Season 5, Episode 2 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast features Linda Joy Myers, author of the novel The Forger of Marseille. During the interview, host Colin Mustful talks with Myers about Varian Fry, the American journalist who ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, the surprising moment of inspiration that led from being a memoirist to a novelist, and her new interview series called The Story Behind the Story. Don’t miss it!

Season 5 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast kicks off with Vanessa Riley, author of Queen of Exiles. During the interview, host Colin Mustful talks with Riley about the history of the Haitian Revolution, the rise to power and then exile of Queen Marie-Louise Christophe, and the issue of reparations for Haiti. Riley also delves into her past, going from a mechanical engineer to a prolific and successful novelist. Don’t miss it!

In this special bonus episode of History Through Fiction: The Podcast, host Colin Mustful chats with author Linda Ulleseit about her new novel, The River Remembers.