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. …

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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…

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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…

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