American History
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Etta Madden
I am delighted to kick off this year’s Women’s History Month series with Etta Madden. I don’t remember where we first met on line, but these days we cross paths about something—a book, an experience, garden produce*—almost every day. In addition to being a kick-ass gardener, Etta is Professor of English at Missouri State University…
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Civilian Internment Camps in World War I (Not a Typo)
Until recently, I thought of internment camps only in terms of the shameful removal and imprisonment of Japanese Americans by the United States government, which saw concentrated populations of people of Japanese descent as a security risk, based on no evidence what so ever.* Several years ago, thanks to the excellent BBC mystery series…
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From the Archives: Was Prof. Bhaer a ’48-er?
Today’s blog post just blew up in my face. It happens. Instead of scrambling to put something together, or simply not posting, I decided to run an updated version of a post from 2015 that relates to some of the issues I was thinking about. There will be new stuff next week,I promise. And an…
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