Their story was an immediate precursor to the Civil War. History comes alive in "Beloved Harriet," the story of the Dred Scott court case as told by Harriet and Dred themselves in a historical fiction dialog.

Andrew Payne managed to get himself killed by the Sauk Indians, and thus began the Black Hawk War of 1832. Learn all about Chief Black Hawk and his tribe's resistance to the take-over of the their lands by an expanding American nation, now online in TRESPASS.

Pictured here in 1904, the Polo Grounds saw a lot of baseball history but nothing reverbrated like "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" played out in 1951. Read the story as told through the eyes of a father and his son living in Harlem.

How did the Monroe Cheesemakers manage to win the 1965 Wisconsin School Boy Baseketball State Championship against all 490 challengers? Read their intriguing story in a fictional historical dialgog between a grandfather and his grandson set in the period.

Before he became president in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was a US Senate candidate from Illinois in 1858. That year he debated Stephen Douglas all over the state in a series of what became the "gold standard" for political debate in the US. Go inside this fascinating piece of American history as told in "Prairie Fire," a fictional dialog between Mary and Abe Lincoln.

Historical Fiction

Sportademics :: Historical Fiction Stories

Our historical fiction stories go behind the scenes of historical events to reveal the human drama associated with those events in the lives of the people living them out. Their stories are told in the form of interactive fictional dialogues accompanied by music. We believe you will thoroughly enjoy these stories.

Beloved Harriet ( 1 Article )

An inspiring historical fiction drama script based on Scott v Sanford, the US Supreme Court ruling on March 6, 1857 that stated that Negroes--whether free or slave--are not United States citizens by the Constitution. This history changing pronouncement helped bring on the Civil War. Follow the lives of Dred and Harriet Scott as they battle for freedom for themselves and their two daughters against all odds.
Cheesemakers ( 1 Article )

Cheesemakers tells the true story of the 1964-65 Monroe High School boys basketball team, Coach Lee Mitchell, and their 26-0 run to glory as State Champions of High School Schoolboy Basketball in the state of Wisconsin The story is told through a script dialogue between a grandfather and his grandson, both avid Cheesemaker fans. Along the way essential basketball fundamentals are woven into the story line along with small town living and dedication to excellence in athletics.
Prairie Fire ( 1 Article )

The Lincoln Douglas debates in the fall of 1858 were termed by an East news reporter as a “Prairie Fire “ spreading across the country. While Lincoln lost the 1858 Senatorial Election to Douglas by a vote of the Illinois legislature, the roots were planted from these debates for the 1860 presidential election between these two same flatlanders. In all debate classes, presidential debates, and every substantial debate of merit, the Lincoln - Douglas debates are referenced as the “ gold standard “ of debating - both for the very importance of the debates at that time to the United States, and the oratorical skills possessed by both legislators.
Shot Heard 'Round the World ( 1 Article )

In the fall of 1951 the National League pennant race came down to the last game of a 3 game play off to end the regular season between the NY Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Follow the competition as told through a script dialogue with a single parent father and his two children in Harlem beginning that August.
Trespass ( 1 Article )

In 1832 Chief Black Hawk, assisted by his adopted son, Whirling Thunder, led a mixed grouping of the Sauk and Fox people from Iowa back to northwest Illinois and southwest Wisonsin to reclaim their ancestral tribal lands. They had been ousted from these lands earlier by the Army and forced onto a reservation across the Mississippi to eastern Iowa.

Read their story as told in a script dialog between Black Hawk and Whirling Thunder accounting their actions leading up to and during the Black Hawk War of 1832.

Sportademics :: Historical Fiction Stories

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