Telling Your Story

Writing Historical Fiction Through Memoirs: When Memory Becomes Story

By Pamela Dunnam Books / 04/30/2026

HNSNA Blog – May 2026 Writing historical fiction is often sparked by an interesting historical tidbit that inspires a story. That is followed by a search to uncover the story, using libraries and archives, military records, census records, or newspaper articles. However, we often don’t need dates or documents to find the story. Instead, it…

The Stories That Made Us – One Photograph at a Time

By Pamela Dunnam Books / 04/30/2026

We know history through the written word, in documents and records. It is preserved in history books and family Bibles. The most compelling history, however, is often that captured in images. The images of our history live with us the longest and can tell the story without a word spoken or written. Paintings and drawings…