Scott D. Parker: Writer

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been listening to The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman. I’d never heard of him but the book’s cover caught my...

Every year during the first week of June, my mind drifts back to the first week of June 1944. The week leading up to D-Day. Even now, sevent...

Note: this post uses television as an example, but the same could be said of books, movies, comics, and music. Most Saturday mornings, I go ...

I'd like to call your attention to an article by John Gruber over at Daring Fireball as an example of the reach of living history. Earli...

There's a moment in The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Killed America's 16th President - and Why It Failed where the Presi...

As soon as I saw the commercials for History TV's mini-series, “Grant,” I knew I wanted to watch it. The big name attached to the proj...

Well, how's everyone doing? So far, my family has heeded the local directive to stay home and stay safe. It seems like such a small th...

Son of Houston-Con IV (2019) starts tomorrow and I've been running a lengthy interview with Don Price. In Part 1, Mr. Price discusse...

Yesterday, Don Price talked about his early life as a comic book reader and collector and those first conventions here in Houston. Can yo...

Even to a historian, Herbert Hoover was a mystery. Before reading Kenneth Whyte’s new biography of our 31st president, Hoover: An Extrao...

It really is just like you were there. On Saturday, CNN broadcast the 2019 documentary "Apollo 11" by Todd Douglas Miller. Thi...

Another really slow week for me, creatively. Finished reviewing the new novel's opening chapters and planned for the next few scenes. Af...

I am a degreed historian with a knack for remembering dates of historical events. As 2019 dawned, I knew we'd hit the fiftieth anniver...

There are countless things to read and watch and listen to today to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day. I've been enjoying Time magazi...

Recently, a Facebook friend of mine posted the following update: That moment when you spend two hours scrolling thru Netflix and Hulu loo...

Never forget: We know what happened. We know how the story ends. We’re living in the story today. Yet there are stretches in THE FIRST CON...

Even to a historian, Herbert Hoover was a mystery. Before reading Kenneth Whyte’s new biography of our 31st president, Hoover: An Extraordi...

Sometimes, a little known fact in history can spark an entire story. THE ESCAPE ARTIST is the latest novel by Meltzer, a man who has a h...

Sometimes, the best way to teach the American public history is not in a classroom. Back in December when I first became aware that there w...

(This is the February 2012 edition of Barrie Summy's Book Review Club. For the complete list, click the icon after this review.) When yo...