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Celebrating Independent Bookstore Day
Here in the United States, the last Saturday of the month is Independent Booksellers Day. (That’s tomorrow if you’re reading this on the day it comes out.) It’s one of my favorite days of the year. Normally I try to celebrate by visiting my neighborhood bookstores. I’m lucky enough to have three independent bookstores within…
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Rosie the Riveter’s Texas Cousins–and a Piece of Big News at the End!
Rosie the Riveter entered the American imagination in 1942 in a song by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb which celebrated a tireless factory worker and her riveting gun.* Artists quickly picked up the image for patriotic posters, the best known being J. Howard Miller’s “We Can Do It” poster for Westinghouse Electric. But Rosie…
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Women’s History Month is Over. What Next?
I always greet the end of Women’s History month with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I am sorry for the fun to end. All through March, everywhere I go on the internet someone is posting something interesting about women whose stories need to be told or sharing their own introduction to women’s history,…
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