Posts Tagged ‘shin-kickers from history’
In Anticipation of Women’s History Month: A Medieval Queen, The First Crusade And The Quest for Peace In Jerusalem
March 1st is barrelling down upon me. It’s the start of women’s history month–which doesn’t have much impact on me because women’s history has been the pool I swim in for the last several years. It’s also the day my manuscript (typescript? bytescript?) is due to my editor and I am scrambling. I hope you…
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Stamping Out Women Warriors–In A Good Way
In the course of doing the research for this book on women warriors, I’ve found plenty of attempts to write women warriors out of history.* It doesn’t make me happy,** but I expected it. What I didn’t expect were the number of women warriors whose countries later embraced them as national heroines and celebrated them…
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From the Archives: The Most Successful Pirate in History
Any guesses? Edward Teach, commonly known as Blackbeard? Captain Kidd? Captain Morgan?* Grace O Malley, aka the Pirate Queen? Sir Francis Drake?** None of them are even close, though Drake has the distinction of capturing what may well have been the largest prize taken in a single raid: the Spanish galleon Cacafuego. The title goes…
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