women’s history – Page 15 – History in the Margins

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…

Enheduanna: A Surprise From the Ancient World

By Pamela | February 5, 2019 |

In the last two blog posts I claimed that it was going to be all women warriors all the time here at the Margins as the publication date for Women Warriors hurtles at me like an out-of-control truck on an ice-coated highway. (1) And for the most part it’s true. But sometimes I stumble across…

Celebrate A Woman Who Made a Difference (By 5/20)

By Pamela | May 18, 2017 |

(Normally I try to send out blog posts on Tuesdays and Fridays, but I’m pushing this one forward a bit because, as you’ll see below tempus fugit.) At some point in the last two years I stumbled across the National Women’s History Project, an organization whose tagline reads “Writing Women Back into History.” (Insert fist-pump…