Posts by Pamela
Getting Ready to Party Like It’s Women’s History Month
This isn’t really a blog post. It’s an announcement of coming attractions. In case you missed the memo, March is Women’s History Month in the United States. Like most of the people I know who work in and around women’s history, I have mixed feelings about it. I love the fact that libraries, schools, community…
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Civilian Internment Camps in World War I (Not a Typo)
Until recently, I thought of internment camps only in terms of the shameful removal and imprisonment of Japanese Americans by the United States government, which saw concentrated populations of people of Japanese descent as a security risk, based on no evidence what so ever.* Several years ago, thanks to the excellent BBC mystery series…
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From the Archives: Was Prof. Bhaer a ’48-er?
Today’s blog post just blew up in my face. It happens. Instead of scrambling to put something together, or simply not posting, I decided to run an updated version of a post from 2015 that relates to some of the issues I was thinking about. There will be new stuff next week,I promise. And an…
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