Shin-Kickers From History – Page 44 – History in the Margins

Déjà Vu All Over Again: Grass Roots Organizing And the Abolition of the Slave Trade

By Pamela | February 3, 2017 |

The first popular political movement to use the techniques of what we call grass roots organizing was the movement to abolish the slave trade in the eighteenth century. The Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, were the first group to take a public stand against slavery and the slave trade, even though Quakers…

Victoria: The Novel

By Pamela | January 10, 2017 |

I don’t normally review novels here on the Margins. In fact, I seldom review novels, period. I read constantly for my work: Big Fat History Books, erudite (and sometimes not so erudite) articles, the first hand accounts on which Big Fat History Books depend.* When I read for fun, I read fiction. I try not…

Rejected Princesses

By Pamela | November 18, 2016 |

I’ve been following Jason Porath’s Tumblr Rejected Princesses (and the blog that followed it and the Facebook page) for two years and a bit. The project began in a discussion with his Dreamworks’ co-workers over what historical woman was least likely to be the heroine of a children’s animated movie. He discovered that few of…