Posts by Pamela
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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Napoleon in Egypt, Part 2
Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign was a military disaster,* but the Army of the Orient wasn’t the only army that Napoleon brought with him to Egypt. A commission of some 160 savants–scientists, artists, engineers, and scholars–accompanied the invading army, bringing with them virtually every book on Egypt available, dozens of crates of scientific instruments and a printing…
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History in the Margins Turns Six, or Time Flies When You’re Having Fun
Happy birthday to us! Six years ago, I started writing History in the Margins with a blog post that asked the question “Why another history blog?” * It was a question I had struggled with for a good year before I decided to jump into the blogosphere. I didn’t have a time or place that…
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