Posts by Pamela
From the Archives: The First Memorial Day
The Memorial Day weekend is peeking over our shoulders– and deadlines are breathing down my neck. Instead of scrambling to produce new posts for today and next Tuesday, I’ve decided to re-run a couple of thematically appropriate posts from the archive. I hope you enjoy them. I’ll be back with new content on June 6. …
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Last Hope Island
As those of you who hang out regularly here on the Margins have probably guessed, I love it when a book turns what I think I know upside down and shakes the change out of its pockets. Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe and the Brotherhood that Helped Turn the Tide of War is one…
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Celebrate A Woman Who Made a Difference (By 5/20)
(Normally I try to send out blog posts on Tuesdays and Fridays, but I’m pushing this one forward a bit because, as you’ll see below tempus fugit.) At some point in the last two years I stumbled across the National Women’s History Project, an organization whose tagline reads “Writing Women Back into History.” (Insert fist-pump…
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