Posts by Pamela
Petra Herrera Wanted To Be a General
I’ve continued to stumble across stories of women warriors in the year since I turned in the manuscript (1) for Women Warriors. Sometimes people walk up to me after a book event and ask “Have you heard about [fill in the blank]?“ (2) It’s humbling how often the answer is no. The other question people…
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The Women of the 6888th Move the Mail
In 1945, the U.S. Military was seriously behind in delivering the mail to Americans stationed in the European theater. There was a two-year backlog of letters and packages addressed to some seven million soldiers and aid workers. The thankless job of sorting through a warehouse full of undelivered mail was assigned to the 855 African-American…
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Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle of the What’sHerName Podcast
Women’s History Month is drawing to an end. This is the last blog post in this year’s series of Telling Women’s History.* And we’re going to end with a bang. I am thrilled to have, Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle, the hosts of the What’sHerName podcast, as my guests. I listen to a lot of…
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