September 15, 2026

Janelle Molony is a historian from Phoenix, AZ, writing primarily on Women, Wars and the West. Her YouTube moniker is the “Hottie Historian.” Molony’s Civil War nonfiction, Emigrant Tales of the Platte River Raids, received 11 national literary awards, including the American Writing Awards for U.S. History and Military History. It documents the largest and longest action seen by the Union Army in Wyoming. Her next Civil War project takes her to Alabama using diaries of an ancestor who closely recorded some of CSA Gen. Benjamin J. Hill’s desperate final moves. Official: JanelleMolony.com