Explore our upcoming projects
At History_Academix, we are constantly working on new and exciting ways to bring history to life. Discover what's on the horizon and get a sneak peek at our latest endeavors designed to engage, educate, and inspire.
From Hearth to Home: A Culinary Journey
Prepare to embark on a culinary journey through the nineteenth century with our upcoming publication, "From Hearth to Home: Nineteenth-Century Recipes, Household Receipts, and Domestic Traditions." This isn't just a cookbook; it's a window into the daily lives, kitchens, and homes of generations past.
Drawing from authentic historical cookbooks, family manuscripts, and primary sources, this beautifully curated volume offers a glimpse into the rich flavors of freshly baked breads, hearty stews, and traditional desserts. Beyond recipes, you'll discover practical household receipts, home remedies, and forgotten domestic skills that sustained American families long before modern conveniences.
Who will love "From hearth to home"?
This unique project is perfect for a wide audience. Whether you are a teacher looking for engaging historical content, a student researching nineteenth-century life, a history buff eager to explore culinary traditions, a family seeking unique insights, a museum professional curating an exhibit, or simply a home cook interested in historical recipes, "From Hearth to Home" offers something for everyone.
More than a cookbook: A journey through history
"From Hearth to Home" stands apart by telling the stories behind the recipes. Every dish and household receipt is placed within its historical context, revealing how ordinary people lived, worked, and built their homes during the nineteenth century. Drawing from authentic historical cookbooks, handwritten manuscripts, newspapers, and diaries, this volume faithfully preserves the flavors and traditions of the past while providing practical adaptations for today's kitchens.
Beyond recipes, readers will delve into the history of domestic life, forgotten household skills, regional traditions, food preservation methods, kitchen technology, and the cultural significance of meals shared around the family table. It's an immersive experience for home cooks, history enthusiasts, genealogists, reenactors, educators, and anyone fascinated by the stories behind family traditions.
Leaving Virginia: A Family’s Journey to Texas
In 1851, a Virginia family stands at the edge of a decision that will change their lives forever.
The world they know is rooted in family, faith, community, and generations of memory. But opportunity lies far to the west, in the young state of Texas, where inexpensive land and the promise of a new beginning are drawing thousands of Americans toward the frontier.
Leaving Virginia means more than packing a wagon and following a road west. It means saying goodbye to familiar faces and places, enduring an uncertain journey, and building a home in a land that is beautiful, demanding, and sometimes dangerous.
As the family travels west and begins a new life in Texas, everyday experiences reveal the larger transformations reshaping nineteenth-century America. Migration, settlement, religion, family relationships, slavery, encounters between different peoples, economic opportunity, and the continuing expansion of the United States all become part of their story.
But history is moving around them as well.
The 1850s are carrying the nation toward a crisis few Americans fully understand. Arguments over slavery and the future of the Union are becoming increasingly bitter. Political divisions deepen. Old loyalties are tested. By 1860, the family that left Virginia searching for a new beginning finds itself living in a country approaching civil war.
Leaving Virginia is a historical fiction story about ordinary people living through extraordinary change. Inspired by the experiences of real nineteenth-century migrants, it explores the courage required to leave home, the hardships of building another, and the complicated meaning of the American frontier.
At its heart, however, this is a story about family.
They leave Virginia searching for a better future.
What they discover is that home is not simply the place you leave behind.
It is something you carry with you.
Anticipated release
We are aiming for an exciting release of "From Hearth to Home" at the end of October or the first of November. Stay tuned to our website and newsletter for more updates, pre-order information, and special announcements!