Posts by Pamela
Ten, Nine, Eight…..
It’s getting close. The PBS series Mercy Street premieres on January 17. Heroines of Mercy Street* will be released on February 16. Am I excited? You have to ask? If you want a quick peek at the series, check out this You Tube video (and the others on the same channel): (Reminder, if you receive…
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Road Trip Through History: The Things We Missed
For those of you who are coming in late, My Own True Love and I went on an adventure this fall: three weeks on the Great River Road. We spent two days in Memphis, three days in New Orleans, and then drove north along the Mississippi without a schedule,* stopping at anything that caught our…
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1815: A Year in Review
This summer the bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo dominated Historyland: a real life reenactment in Belgium, a real time reenactment on-line, thousands* of new books on the subject, and a gazillion Waterloo-related blog posts on topics as large as the Congress of Vienna and as small as false teeth. It was a big, flashy…
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