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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Paige Bowers
Last year I interviewed Paige Bowers about her biography of French resistance fighter Geneviève De Gaulle. This year I delighted to have her back to talk about women’s history and her next book, Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, The Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering—another biography of a woman we should have heard of.…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Leah Leach of Gal’s Guide to the Galaxy
As is the case with so many of my friends in Women’s History World, I met Leah Leach of Gal’s Guide to the Galaxy on Twitter. (Don’t let anyone tell you social media has no value.) Gal’s Guide to the Galaxy is an in-the-trenches grassroots organization dedicated to spreading the word about women’s history. Here’s…
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Eugene V. Debs: Socialist for President, Over and Over Again
Labor organizer Eugene V. Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1855. He left home when he was fourteen to work for the railroad—not unusual for the time. In 1875, he helped organize a local lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman, a fraternal benefit society which gradually took on the role of a…
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