women warriors – Page 11 – History in the Margins

Petra Herrera Wanted To Be a General

By Pamela | April 9, 2019 |

I’ve continued to stumble across stories of women warriors in the year since I turned in the manuscript (1) for Women Warriors. Sometimes people walk up to me after a book event and ask “Have you heard about [fill in the blank]?“ (2) It’s humbling how often the answer is no. The other question people…

Telling Women’s History: three Questions and an Answer with Nancy Marie Brown

By Pamela | March 18, 2019 |

Nancy Marie Brown and I first made contact when I was poking around the medieval world, working on the question of how Islam kept the flame of classical civilization alive and helped shape the culture of the West. That book never saw the light of day, but Nancy and I stayed in touch. We finally…

Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Adrienne Mayor

By Pamela | March 5, 2019 |

I first “met” Adrienne Mayor on the late lamented group history blog Wonders & Marvels, which both of us contributed to on a regular basis. I always looked forward to Adrienne’s posts. She wrote about quirky and fascinating topics that straddled the worlds of classical history and history of science: biological warfare in the ancient…