Odd Bits
From the Archives: The First Memorial Day
The Memorial Day weekend is peeking over our shoulders– and deadlines are breathing down my neck. Instead of scrambling to produce new posts for today and next Tuesday, I’ve decided to re-run a couple of thematically appropriate posts from the archive. I hope you enjoy them. I’ll be back with new content on June 6. …
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Celebrate A Woman Who Made a Difference (By 5/20)
(Normally I try to send out blog posts on Tuesdays and Fridays, but I’m pushing this one forward a bit because, as you’ll see below tempus fugit.) At some point in the last two years I stumbled across the National Women’s History Project, an organization whose tagline reads “Writing Women Back into History.” (Insert fist-pump…
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History in the Margins Turns Six, or Time Flies When You’re Having Fun
Happy birthday to us! Six years ago, I started writing History in the Margins with a blog post that asked the question “Why another history blog?” * It was a question I had struggled with for a good year before I decided to jump into the blogosphere. I didn’t have a time or place that…
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