American History
All-Night Party
As some of you may have noticed, I’ve been spending a a fair amount of time in recent months in New York City in the 1910s and 1920s, especially the corners of it dedicated to artists, bohemians, and modernists, self-declared and otherwise. Consequently, when All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930…
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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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