Posts by Pamela
Cornelia Hancock’s Civil War: A Q & A with Caroline Ivanoff
Several years ago, I wrote a book about nurses in the American Civil War. It looked at the story of civil war nurses as a group, told through the experiences of individual women. One of my favorites, was a young Quaker woman named Cornelia Hancock, who made her way to Gettysburg as a volunteer nurse.…
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Air Minded: A Q & A with Kimberley Sheeter
Those of you who’ve hung out here on the Margins for a while know that aviation history is something that comes up often in our house. My Own True Love is interested in historical planes; both of us are interested in the people who flew them. For some time now, I’ve enjoyed the aviation adjacent…
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From the Archives: Quilting–Protection against More than Just the Cold
Another post from the archives, this one from 2013 *** When we think about quilting, we tend to think about hand-crafted patchwork coverlets and puffy down coats. We don’t think about armor. But in fact, quilted armor played an important role in European warfare from the time of the Crusades through the sixteenth century. The…
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