Twentieth Century
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Kimberly Hamlin
Kimberly A. Hamlin is an award-winning historian, author, and professor specializing in the history of women, gender, and sex in the United States. She grew up outside of Syracuse, New York, not far from the historical homes of many of the women she writes about today. After graduating from Georgetown University, she worked for women…
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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: Three Questions and an Answer from Marlene Trestman
I’ve met the most amazing women hanging out on the Internet. Case in point: Marlene Trestman. For the last decade of her thirty-year career with the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, from which she retired in 2013, Marlene Trestman served as Special Assistant to the Attorney General. Recognized for her enforcement of laws governing consumer protection…
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