Brian Deming
Brian Deming has a master’s degree in American history from Northwestern University. He has taught U.S. history and media history at the University of New York in Prague. He has written two non-fiction books on history, one on the history of Jackson, Michigan, and the other (with Ted Iliff) about Adolf Hitler and Munich.
He has also written a historical novel, “Wind Time Wolf Time,” about the Thirty Years War, and has lectured about the Thirty Years War and the Boston Massacre Trials.
He has had a long career as a journalist and editor, reporting for newspapers in Michigan and Indiana, editing for magazines in Germany and Japan, and freelance editing on such topics as the electronics industry and medicine.
He has lived outside the United States in Germany, the Czech Republic, Japan, and the Philippines. He was born and raised in the United States, and has lived in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, California, and Massachusetts.
He now lives in Toronto.
Latest Articles
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What Became of the Hancock Mansion in Boston on Beacon Hill?
The home of the famous signer of the Declaration of Independence and first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is gone. But a replica survives.
Dec 15, 2010
- Brian Deming
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The Cozy, Controversial New England Custom of Bundling
In some northern parts of early America, It was permissible in some families for unmarried sweethearts to cuddle in bed together while fully clothed.
Dec 8, 2010
- Brian Deming
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Forgotten Revolutionary Milestone 1768 Convention in Faneuil Hall
In the run-up to the Revolution, a meeting in Boston in defiance of the royal governor was a fiasco for patriots, but still a key step toward independence.
Nov 22, 2010
- Brian Deming
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Printer Isaiah Thomas, the Massachusetts Spy, and the Revolution
Among the Boston newspapers that taunted Tories and fired up the patriots was the Spy, published by a young man who began his apprenticeship at age 7.
Nov 12, 2010
- Brian Deming
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The Hancocks' Long Courtship, Wartime Wedding, Deaths of Children
John Hancock promised to marry Dorothy Quincy in 1770. Five years later, as war began, he finally set a date. Loss of daughter, son darkened married life.
Nov 3, 2010
- Brian Deming
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Boston's Province House, Vanished Residence of Royal Governors
The great mansion near Old South was a historic landmark and architectural gem of colonial New England. Gone since 1922, but famous weather vane survives.
Oct 22, 2010
- Brian Deming
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Henry Pelham, Paul Revere, and Drawing of Boston Massacre
Many people know that the famous silversmith made the etching of the bloody 1770 event. How many know Revere copied it from the work of another man?
Oct 13, 2010
- Brian Deming
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George Robert Twelves Hewes, Massacre Witness, Tea Party Veteran
Celebrity came late in life for a poor shoemaker with a big family, an odd name, and a place in the tumultuous history of Boston before War of Independence.
Oct 5, 2010
- Brian Deming
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Boston's Benjamin Church, Physician, Patriot, Traitor, Enigma
Before Benedict Arnold, there was Benjamin Church, a trusted, vigorous patriot leader who apparently betrayed the American cause early in the Revolution.
Sep 17, 2010
- Brian Deming
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How First Lady Abigail Adams Integrated a School in Massachusetts
On the farm in Quincy, the wife of the second president oversaw farmhands, scheduled plowing, managed manuring, and helped a black boy get an education.
Sep 10, 2010
- Brian Deming
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