The Cause of Henry Schnell
In the turbulent decades leading to the American Civil War, the fate of the republic was being argued not only in Congress and on battlefields-but in the immigrant neighborhoods of America's growing cities.
In Cincinnati's German quarter, refugees from the failed revolutions of Europe gathered in taverns and Turner halls to debate liberty, democracy, and the responsibilities of citizenship in a country still deciding who truly belonged.
Among them grows a boy named Edward Schell.
Raised between languages, traditions, and loyalties, Edward listens as the adults around him wrestle with the great questions of their age. But as nativist hostility spreads and the nation drifts toward civil war, the arguments that once filled taverns and picnic grounds begin to demand real consequences.
History is no longer something discussed.
It is something that demands a choice.
From the immigrant streets of Cincinnati to the gathering storms of war, The Cause of Henry Schnell is a sweeping historical novel about identity, conviction, and the forces that shape nations-and the individuals who must decide how they will meet them.
Rich in historical detail and moral depth, this first volume of the Hegemony Series begins an epic story about power, memory, and the recurring cycles of history that test both societies and the people who live within them.
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