Posts by Pamela
In Celebration of Nurses
I’ve spent a lot of the last ten months thinking, reading, writing and talking about nurses.* In the months since Heroines of Mercy Street was published, I’ve spent a lot of time talking to nurses–and their friends, mothers, daughters, granddaughters and nieces. (I’m sure nurses also have fathers, sons, grandsons and nephews, but the men…
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Another Year, Another Book Giveaway!
Gee, where did the last year go?* It’s hard to believe that we’ve been hanging out here at the Margins for five years. Some of you have been with me from the beginning. Some of you found the blog last week.(And glad we are to have you here.) Five years ago I was so uncertain…
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Spain in Our Hearts
In Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, Adam Hochschild (To End All Wars) moves beyond the familiar image of the Spanish Civil War shaped by Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls* and Robert Capa’s iconic photographs. He uses the experiences of less famous volunteers—a young economics professor and his…
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