Posts by Pamela
Supper at Sea in the Age of Sail
This summer I’ve had the pleasure of working with Fen Truitt. Fen is a student at Trinity College in Dublin. She’s interested in art, architecture, literature, music, hiking, and history–just for starters. In short, she fits in well here on the Margins, as you’ll see in the guest blog post below. (Please note that the…
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One House, Five Families and 100 Years of German History
In The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History, Thomas Harding* tells the history of twentieth century Germany through the lens of a small vacation home, located on a lake near the outskirts of Berlin, and the five families who owned it. Harding is not an impartial…
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50 Years Before Hilary Clinton: Indira Gandhi
Fifty years ago, on January 24, 1966, Indira Gandhi was sworn into office as India’s third prime minister. She was not the first elected female head of state–that honor goes to Sirivamo Bandaraniake of Sri Lanka. But she was the first woman elected to her country’s highest position who played a visible role on the…
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