Journalists
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Julia Scheeres
Julia Scheeres is the co-author with Allison Gilbert of Listen World! How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most Read Woman. Scheeres grew up in Indiana as one of six siblings that included two adopted Black brothers. . After graduating with a B.A. in Spanish from Calvin College, she moved to Valencia, Spain, for four…
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From the Archives: Eighty Days
In every book I write I reach the point where I am so deep in the work that I have to stop writing blog posts and newsletters. I always hope to avoid it. That somehow I’ll be smarter, or faster, or more organized, or just more. This time I’ve managed to avoid hitting the wall…
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Going Viral, 1930’s Style
These days I spend a fair amount of time reading memoirs of people who were in Berlin at the same time as Sigrid Schultz, particularly memoirs written by her fellow journalists. They give me a slightly different perspective on what it was like in Berlin. They often share nuts and bolts of working with German…
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