David T Chapin

Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740–1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest and is also well known ...

All of us are descended from a chain of ancestors. Who our ancestors are is usually lost through the mists of time. This book is a catalog of those special families who happened to carefully preserve their lineages. These unique families have preserved continuous family lineages going back over 1000...

The Blessing of the Dew is a sweeping historical novel that follows the journey of a mystical, magical cloak through 400 years within the same family. It tells the story through the eyes of the Bik family, an Eastern European Jewish family of rabbis, who see sweeping changes to their lives in a smal...

The Road from Letichev presents the history of the area through the eyes of individuals who lived there. The Letichev District (Podolia) of Ukraine was a microcosm of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. It was the home of the Baal Shem Tov and the cradle of the Chasidic movement. This book is, in part, d...

Jim Novy was a self-made success story, arriving in America a teenager with just a few dollars in his pocket. His lifespan covered many interesting 20th century events. While in some ways, he was a microcosm of the immigrant Jewish experience, he went beyond that in terms of wealth and political con...

Exploring Other Worlds tells the intertwined stories of the Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane and the spiritualist medium Margaret Fox and examines their unlikely relationship. Kane, from a prominent Philadelphia family, became one of the most renowned and honored explorers of the antebellum era. Fox...

The Road from Letichev presents the history of the area through the eyes of individuals who lived there. The Letichev District (Podolia) of Ukraine was a microcosm of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. It was the home of the Baal Shem Tov and the cradle of the Chasidic movement. This book is, in part, d...

Why is so much life science marketing so bad? It's a challenging question--and the best response may be to ask another. How do you turn the complexity of scientific and biopharma information, processes, and data into compelling, high-performance messages? It's not easy. But building on more than 20 ...