It is the time of year when I spend even more time than usual thinking about women’s history: What does it look like? What does it mean? How do we incorporate women into public history with the goal of making it so mainstream that it no longer needs a qualifier? Who is doing interesting work in the field?

For many of you, March is far away. For those of us who are plotting planning Women’s History Month content, it is practically tomorrow. As long-time readers know, every March I run mini-interviews four days a week with people doing interesting work related to women’s history in a varied of fields and forms. I started the list of people to invite earlier this year. But as always at this point in the year, it is not quite long enough and not as varied as I would like.* That means I have my antenna up for people I might want to invite and cool stuff I might want to share.

Which brings me the Remedial Herstory Project.** I’ve been aware of their work for several years now. The short version is that they work to help school teachers incorporate women’s history into their history curriculum, not just in March but throughout the year. I recently discovered this Tedx talk in which the women at the helm of RHP discuss what that could look like, using what Kelsie Brooke Eckert has dubbed “the Eckert test”.*** If I had more self-discipline I would save it for March. But I don’t.

* Suggestions welcome. Particularly suggestions of people working on women who are not middle or upper class white Americans from the mid-19th to mid 20th centuries.

**In the spirit of full disclosure, and blatant self promotion, I recently recorded a podcast episode for RHP. You can find it here:

***Think a more challenging relative of the Bechdel test, designed for history curricula.