Posts by Pamela
From the Archives: A Woman’s Right to Vote and Germany’s 1932 Presidential Elections
When national elections occur here in the United States I always run a few relevant posts from the archives, because I don’t think it is possible to overemphasize how important the right to vote it. This ran for the first time in 1921 I’m still working my way through the articles Sigrid Schultz published…
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David Roberts, Egypt, and Me
Almost a year ago, I promised readers of my newsletter, that I would write a blog post about Scottish-born artist David Roberts (1796-1864), whose work played a small role in my doctoral dissertation and provided many of the images of ancient Egypt in my head. I had forgotten all about that promise until I recently…
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All-Night Party
As some of you may have noticed, I’ve been spending a a fair amount of time in recent months in New York City in the 1910s and 1920s, especially the corners of it dedicated to artists, bohemians, and modernists, self-declared and otherwise. Consequently, when All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930…
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