Posts by Pamela
1920: A Year in Review
If you spent time this year in the places where the history buffs hang out on-line, including this blog, you know that the 19th Amendment of the United States Constitution was ratified on August 18, 1920— “giving” women the right to vote. Over the course of 2020, historians expanded the story to remind us of…
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Shin-Kickers From History: Gaston Madru Secretly Films Occupied Paris
Today I stumbled across an unexpected story–or at least a part of a story. Talking to a reporter about her experiences as a war correspondent Sigrid Schultz mentioned “our French colleague Gaston Madru who had been killed by German soldiers when they caught him alone in his car near Leipzig on April 19, 1945. Because…
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From the Archives: Shin Kickers From History: Margaret Chase Smith
My Own True Love recently reminded me about this post, which originally ran in 2018. It seems like a good time to run it again, for reasons that I think need no explanation. A blog post about Senator Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) could easily consist of nothing more than a collection of the trenchant…
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