Military History
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: More Than Three Answers and a Question with Sarah Rose
Sarah Rose is a journalist and bestselling author of D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis and Helped Win World War II, and For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History. A former news columnist at the Wall Street Journal, her feature writing…
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History on Display: Capturing A German Submarine at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if a major attraction is within a five-minute drive* of your home, you will seldom if ever visit it. It is not true that I have never visited Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, which is one of the major landmarks in my neighborhood.** My first two…
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