Sean M Jacobs

THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION -: - The Pursuit and Capture of John Wilkes Booth and Trial of Davy Herold (150th Anniversary Series of the Lincoln Assassination Book 2)

About the bookWhen beginning to write the six novels covering the Abraham Lincoln Assassination Trial of the Century in 1865, I learned more about “history” than I could ever have imagined. In one of my novels written in 2014, Sisters of Mercy – The Runaway Scrape, a story about how brave Sam Housto...

Exposition - The Knights of the Golden Circle: The Most Secretive Society in All of U. S. History (150th Anniversary of the Lincoln Assassination) (Volume 7)

When writing one of the chapters in Book 6 - The Conspiracy Theories in the Lincoln Assassination, research led me to the Knights of the Golden Circle. After six books, very little was found or read in their association with secession and connection with Lincoln's assassination. After reviewing nume...

Exposition - The Knights of the Golden Circle: The Most Secretive Organization in All of U. S. History (The 150th Anniversary Series of the Lincoln Assassination Book 7)

You can't understand the Lincoln Assassination without understanding the Knights of the Golden Circle, the most powerful and secret societies in all America at the time of the Lincoln Assassination. It is somewhat unusual to understand how very little has been written about this organization, especi...

The Trial of Lewis Thornton Powell - The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy: (aka Payne, Powell, Wood, Mosby, Doc and Mystery Man) (150th Anniversary Series of the Lincoln Assassination Book 3)

BOOK 3 in the 150th Anniversary Series of the Lincoln Assassination: Reporters are denied access to Lewis Thornton Powell, one of the conspirators in the Lincoln Assassination while held captive on the USS Montauk with David Herold in the same down-below chambers of the vessel. Reporters are held at...

The Lincoln Assassination: from the Assassination and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln to the Capture and Torture of Jefferson Davis (The 150th Anniversary Series of the Lincoln Assassination) (Volume 1)

In the case of my first book in the 150th Anniversary Series of the Lincoln Assassination, I was not going to write in support of one side or the other. I drew a narrow gray line between how the facts are described in the novel. I hadn't even started the series without noticing I used the word gray ...

Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy

In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today’s movement for justice in Palestine.Contributors inc...

The Trial of Lewis Thornton Powell in the Lincoln Assassination: (aka Payne, Paine, Wood, Mosby, Doc and Mystery Man) (150th Anniversary Series of the Lincoln Assassination) (Volume 3)

This novel is the third novel in the series. Atzerodt, Surratt and the final conspiracy novels are to follow. As an author, I value the insight of my readers. After the first trial in "The Pursuit of John Wilkes Booth and the Trial of Davy Herold" in Book 2, many readers got bogged down during the t...

The Lincoln Assassination: Pursuit and Capture of John Wilkes Booth and Trial of David Edgar Herold (150th Anniversary Series of the Lincoln Assassination) (Volume 2)

When beginning to write the six novels covering the Abraham Lincoln Assassination Trial of the Century in 1865, I learned more about “history” than I could ever have imagined. In one of my novels written in 2014, Sisters of Mercy – The Runaway Scrape, a story about how brave Sam Houston was on the b...

Shifting Selves: Post-Apartheid Essays on Mass Media, Culture and Identity

Real Politics: The Wicked Issues