Author - Jim Remsen
Jim Remsen is a journalist and author of two prior books, The Intermarriage Handbook (HarperCollins, 1988) and Visions of Teaoga (Sunbury, 2014). Since retiring as Religion Editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Jim has pursued his keen interest in history, with a focus on underappreciated aspects of our nation’s local histories. Being a native of Waverly, Pa., he is pleased to be bringing his old hometown’s remarkable black and abolitionist period to light.
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Jim Remsen
Back From BattleThe Forgotten Story of Pennsylvania’s Camp Disc...The Forgotten Story of Pennsylvania’s Camp Discharge and the Weary Civil War Soldiers It Served In the final year of the American Civil War, a special Union Army post was constructed just outside P... -
Jim Remsen
Embattled Freedomby Jim Remsen Chronicle of a Fugitive-Slave Hav...by Jim Remsen Chronicle of a Fugitive-Slave Haven in the Wary North Rural Northeastern Pennsylvania was a bucolic farming region in the 1800s—but political tensions churned below the surface. When... -
Jim Remsen
Visions of Teaogaby Jim Remsen The year is 1790 and Queen Esther...by Jim Remsen The year is 1790 and Queen Esther, a notorious American Indian matriarch, travels under cover to observe a U.S.-Iroquois summit at the ancient Teaoga treaty grounds. Will she be able ...
