From the Archives: Blood Sisters

I have started and abandoned three blog post topics this morning. Two of them were based on pieces of information that turned out to be not quite correct when I looked at them more closely. And the third was a little known moment within a well-known story: the moment was too small to support a…

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Josephine Baker–a Graphic Biography

It took me several months to work my way through Catel Muller and José-Louis Bocquet’s graphic biography of Josephine Baker. Not because it wasn’t interesting or well done, but because it is the graphic equivalent of a Big Fat History Book, with 460 pages of densely packed graphic story and another 100 pages of supporting…

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Women’s History Month is Over. What Next?

  I always greet the end of Women’s History month with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I am sorry for the fun to end. All through March, everywhere I go on the internet someone is posting something interesting about women whose stories need to be told or sharing their own introduction to women’s history,…

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