Footnotes, endnotes or online notes?

[Linda Anderson]

On the opposite end of this is a book like Bill Richter's excellent Sic Semper Tyrannis. On some pages the footnotes take up more than half the page!

The Last Confederate Heroes also has amazing notes. I haven't read any other historical novels that are footnoted like that but I wish they were. I suppose most publishers would not agree with me if the book is an historical novel but the author could put the footnotes online.

Some historical novels I wish were footnoted are Lincoln by Gore Vidal, Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon, and Katy of Catoctin by George Alfred Townsend (Gath).

A World on Fire's extensive bibliography is online and not in the print version.