Posts by Pamela
The Free State of Fiume
And speaking of oddities in the Versailles Peace Treaty, as I believe we were, allow me to introduce you to the Free State of Fiume. I stumbled across the story while I was working my way through old articles in the Chicago Tribune, trying to untangle a messy problem of chronology, when I ran across…
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Why was Chief Mkwawa’s skull an issue in the Treaty of Versailles?
First, let me make it clear that this story is NOT an April Fool’s joke. Even if I enjoyed prank stories as a way to celebrate foolishness on April 1st—and I don’t*—over the last few years we have seen so many unbelievable true stories that it is sometimes are to tell the real articles from…
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Women’s History–Not Just a Month
We’re coming to the end of Women’s History Month. Here on the Margins it’s been a month of fascinating interviews with people doing exciting things in the field.* The fact is, I could interview someone about this work every day of the week and not run out of people to talk to.** People are doing wonderful…
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