World War I
Uncle Sam Wants You: The Man Behind the Poster
Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) keeps popping up in places where I don’t expect him. Each time I have to look him up, because I don’t remember who he is. Each time he looks a little more interesting. Most recently I stumbled across him on HathiTrust. I had given into the temptation to search for…
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From the Archives: Walking Hallowed Ground
Recently My Own True Love and I were at dinner with friends and the conversation turned to the Gallipoli campaign in World War I . [1] The next day he requested that I run this post again. It originally ran in 2011, when History in the Margins was brand-new. I think it holds up. In…
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From the Archives: Bessie Beatty and the Red Heart of Russia
A post form 2022 for your amusement while I catch up on the things that piled up during Women’s History Month. New posts soon, I promise! *** I was recently digging about in the history of women’s magazines in the early twentieth century when I came across a familiar name: Bessie Beatty. I knew Beatty’s…
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