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From the Archives – Shin-kickers from History: Joan of Arc
Several months ago, I asked a group of family and friends to tell me what they knew about Joan of Arc, aka St. Joan, aka the Maid of Orleans–no stopping to look up the details. I needed to know how familiar the average smart, well-read, non-specialist is with her story.* The accuracy and detail of…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Sarah Percy
Sarah Percy is associate professor at the University of Queensland. The author of Mercenaries and Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat, she completed her MPhil and DPhil as a Commonwealth Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. She lives in Brisbane, Australia. Take it away, Sarah! What inspired you to write Forgotten Warriors? A historical puzzle got…
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From the Archives: Reading My Way Through Roman Britain, Pt. 1
The places I hang out on line are having a lot of fun theses days with the question of how often men think about the Roman Empire. The answer apparently being, a lot. (Really?) I have no idea who started it, or why. But it’s a natural for history nerds being nerdy. It has spawned…
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