Posts by Pamela
Looking Forward to Women’s History Month
In case you missed the memo, March is Women’s History Month. As far as I’m concerned, it is more important than ever to celebrate the accomplishments of women in the past. As I have for the last seven (!) years, I’m hosting a series of mini-interviews with people doing interesting work related to women’s history…
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Alice Barber Stephens, Illustrator (Yes, Another One)
You may have noticed that I’ve been sharing the stories of women artists and illustrators over the last few months. I didn’t set out to look for them, but one woman led to another. Like women warriors, women journalists and women inventors, even women artists who were well known and successful in their time are…
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Lord Macartney’s Embassy to China
In my last blog post, I mentioned Lord Macartney’s embassy to China in 1793. It was an aside to a post that was itself not much more than an aside, but, as so often happens around here, one story led me to another. A beautiful copy of the journal Macartney kept about his time in…
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