Reviews
From the Archives: Curiosity’s Cats
By the time this post is available for you to read, I will be deep in the final day of a four-day exploration of a previously untouched and barely organized archive. I hope to come out the other end knowing whether I have enough material to write a proposal about a subject I’m interested in. …
Read More
From the Archives: Slouching Toward Jerusalem
I really meant to have a brand new blog post for you all today, but the one I was working expanded in all directions (six asterisked footnotes at last count) and finally turned into a tangled mess. The footnotes are currently the only readable part. Rather than leaving you without a Friday post, I’m sharing…
Read More
Barbie and Ruth
Back in March, Stacy Cordery made a comment that stuck with me: “As a classroom professor and a woman’s biographer, it had been clear to me for years that female entrepreneurs are largely missing from history. Most of us can name at least a handful of Gilded Age or Progressive Era captains of industry…
Read More