NowWeKnowEm
A new story from the past, every morning.
Real people. Real history. The ordinary decisions history almost forgot.
Every morning at NowWeKnowEm I tell one story. A small one, usually. The carpenter, not the captain. The mother whose name was written in the parish margin. The sailor on the watch nobody remembers. I keep circling the same question. What does one ordinary decision cost, and what does the world look like on the other side of it? History is not what happened. It is what got written down — and someone has to go back for the people who were left out. That is the whole job on this page. Every story is built on the documented record. Passenger lists, ship’s logs, court testimony, the names that survived because someone took the trouble to write them down. Read one before the day gets loud.
The fiction ends. The record begins.
Today’s Story
The first NowWeKnowEm story publishes here on June 1, 2026, and a new one every morning after. This space always holds the latest.
Recent Stories
As the daily archive grows, the most recent stories will gather here, a quiet shelf of the people history almost forgot.
The blog is the workshop. The books are what gets built there.
The daily stories at NowWeKnowEm are the soil my fiction grows in. The same archives I dig through every morning, the passenger lists, the ship’s logs, the parish records, become the bones of the Sparks of Liberty stories, the Where the Buffalo Fell series, and the Her Name Was project tracing the women in the lineage of Jesus. The blog is the workshop. The books are what gets built there. If a story you read here moves you, the books are where it goes deeper.
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“Half of the Mayflower’s passengers were dead by the following spring. The other half built Plymouth Colony.”
From The Speedwell’s Confession · Author’s Historical Library
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Every story we have told, in one place. Tap a frame to look closer — tap it again to read it.
