{"id":8700,"date":"2018-10-05T08:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=8700"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:23:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T13:23:27","slug":"did-history-class-bore-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/new-book-release\/did-history-class-bore-you","title":{"rendered":"Did History Class Bore You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>If so, I get why.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>History class often left out the \u201cstuff\u201d I find fascinating. How did events affect the people living then? History is just the story of life. I always end every historical with a Historical Note that tells the reader what was true history and what I made up within the real history. Here\u2019s the one from my new book, Chloe\u2019s story, <i>Meant for Me.<\/i><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Historical Note<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>\u201cWars are the locomotives of history\u201d is a truth that can\u2019t be denied. Wars force humans to make advancements in weaponry and medical technology. And they put the fighting-age generation through a fiery furnace that forever changes them and, hence, their society. To me, the twentieth century started with WWI and not the arbitrary date of 1900. A living example, Chloe led a completely different life before WWI than she did after it.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Also, two new amendments to the Constitution at the beginning of the twenties\u2014women\u2019s suffrage and prohibition&#8211;ushered in vast societal changes. Women started voting\u2014a good thing. But the prohibition amendment actually had the opposite effect on society than it was supposed to\u2014it closed the male domain of the old-time saloon, but the nightclub took its place and made cocktails popular for women as well as men. The generation that had been told they were fighting in the \u201cWar to End All Wars\u201d returned from that first brutal modern conflict\u2014with air battles, mustard gas, machine guns, and tanks\u2014disillusioned and ready to drown their sorrows in bathtub gin. So criminals organized and reaped huge profits from speakeasies while the FBI grew stronger, trying to stop the illicit trade.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>The \u201cLost Generation\u201d of the twenties took nothing seriously if it could help it and flaunted its new freedom with bobbed hair, rouged lips, short skirts, and automobiles. For the first time, the name of Freud and the word sex worked its way into modern conversation. Couples stopped courting and started dating \u2014shocking their elders by kissing people they had no intention of marrying. They danced the wild Charleston and the Black Bottom to honky-tonk jazz. Chloe, Roarke, Kitty, and Drake all portrayed the different ways Americans coped with this new age.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Finally, WWI was the first war in which American black men were drafted in larger numbers as citizen soldiers. Both the South and North were rocked by racial unrest when black men donned uniforms and shed a servile manner. Of course, Minnie portrayed the hope of the disenfranchised black population. She was born into poverty and Jim Crow, but Minnie had dreams and the will to make them come true. Go, Minnie! In the new century, Chloe and Minnie found a way to break through the barriers that had separated their families for generations and Chloe found her greatest joy in seeing her friend\u2019s success.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>In the subsequent stories in The Carlyle Women series, these many themes\u2014tyranny, injustice, freedom, equality\u2014will repeat, since they were the great struggles of the twentieth century and continue today. Just check the evening news.&#8211;Lynz<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>To read the first three chapters of <i>Meant for Me<\/i>, Book 1 of \u201cThe Carlyle Women,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/free-read\">click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>To purchase, <a href=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/books-by-lyn\/meant-for-me\">click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8656\" src=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WEB-LYN-COTE-MEANT-FOR-ME.jpg\" alt=\"MEANT FOR ME\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If so, I get why. History class often left out the \u201cstuff\u201d I find fascinating. How did events affect the people living then? History is just the story of life. 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