Reviews – Page 55 – History in the Margins

Tales From American HerStory

By Pamela | March 6, 2018 |

I know I’ve mentioned it before, but I owe a debt of gratitude to a group of authors (or perhaps a single author) whose name I don’t remember. She, he, or they wrote a series of biographies for young girls about smart, tough American women who sidestepped society’s boundaries and accomplished things no one thought…

From the Archives: Lovelace, Babbage and Steampunk Comics (with a little grumble about Lord Byron)

By Pamela | January 22, 2018 |

Today is the 230th birthday of George Gordon, Lord Byron, and bits of his history are popping up here and there all over the internet. There are lots of good (or bad) stories to tell. He was a poet when poets were rock stars of the sex, drugs and iambic pentameter variety. And he was…

Jeannine Davis-Kimball’s Warrior Women

By Pamela | January 9, 2018 |

I am ashamed to admit that Jeannine Davis-Kimball’s Warrior Women–An Archaeologist’s Search for History’s Hidden Heroines sat on my shelf unread for months.* I looked at it early on in the research stage. I decided I wanted to own a copy so I could scribble in the margins. (As opposed to scribbling in the Margins.)…