Posts by Pamela
From the Archives: Choosing (Historical) Sides
A frivolous post from 2016, that feels a little more pointed today. *** Recently a friend of mine texted me from Culloden in Scotland[1]–the battlefield where the Duke of Cumberland routed Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite forces and effectively ended the Jacobite cause. (Charles was later involved in a half-hearted French plan to invade England in…
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From the Archives: Shin-Kickers from History: Mary Heaton Vorse
As some of you may have noticed, for the last year or so I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Not entirely on purpose. I’ve done a number of Q & As with the authors of books set in the era.) …
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From the Archives: Endpapers
Over the past two days, I have spend several hours struggling with and ultimately abandoning two different blog posts. I suspect the problem is me rather than the topics. So I’m going to queue up a few posts from the past and hope I come back with my brain fluffed up and ready to write.…
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