The American Civil War pitted brother against brother and tore the country in two, but out of the ashes rose the foundations of our modern-day nation. bolotin brings you the Civil War stories you never learned about in school.
Norman Bolotin has written eight books about the Civil War, Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the Klondike Gold Rush. As partners in The History Bank, he and his wife, Christine Laing, developed the award-winning Young Readers' History of the Civil War for Penguin/Scholastic. They currently are expanding their museum and publishing studies previously distributed and sponsered in part by the American Association of Museums, Association of American Publishers, Ingram Book Co. and the University of Chicago. Bolotin, an expert in world's fairs, has curated exhibits, written catalogs and conducted analyes of the World's Columbian and Seattle's Century 21 expositions. Bolotin and Laing live in Woodinville, Washington.
