Posts Tagged ‘shin-kickers from history’
The General’s Niece
Over the last year I’ve spent a lot of time thinking and reading about women involved in resistance movements in World War II. The extent of women’s particicpation in the armed resistance units known as the maquis is a matter of dispute. But no one doubts that many women performed critical activities that allowed the…
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You think one vote doesn’t matter? Hah!
We’re coming up on the hundredth anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment, Which made it legal for women in the United States to vote.* If you hang out in Historyland, you’re going to be reading a lot in the coming year about suffragettes (or, to use the term many of them preferred, suffragists**, the…
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Women of the Great War: Edith Cavell – “Patriotism is not enough”
For the last four years, the hundredth anniversary of the First World War has been a continuing theme here on the Margins and in other places where history buggs hang out. Now the anniversary of the Armistice is less than a month a away. In recognition of that anniversary, over the next two monthsI will…
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