Interviews
Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Paula Tarnapol Whitacre
Paula Tarnapol Whitacre and I met for the simple reason that we both wrote book dealing with women who ended up in Alexandria Virginia in the Civil War. I wrote about nurses who served at Mansion House Hospital; Paula wrote about Julia Wilbur, an abolitionist and reformer. Paula is a freelance writer and editor, usually…
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Telling Women’s History: three Questions and an Answer with Nancy Marie Brown
Nancy Marie Brown and I first made contact when I was poking around the medieval world, working on the question of how Islam kept the flame of classical civilization alive and helped shape the culture of the West. That book never saw the light of day, but Nancy and I stayed in touch. We finally…
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Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Scott Stern
When I asked the people at Beacon Press whether there were other Beacon authors who would be a good fit for this series, several people immediately answered Scott Stern, author of The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison ‘Promiscuous’ Women. The book is the account of a little…
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