Posts by Pamela
Counting My Blessings
It is Thanksgiving here in the United States, and I have a LOT to be thankful for this year, including the fact that I am at home cooking Thanksgiving dinner.* In a few minutes I will begin several hours of peeling, chopping, stirring, and roasting, with an occasional pause to put my feet up…
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In which I finally review Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science—and the World
Journalist Rachel Swaby’s Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science—and the World is the source of one of my favorite descriptions of the work I do as a writer of women’s history: “revealing a hidden history of the world.” Swaby was inspired to write her collective biography of groundbreaking women scientists by an obituary which appeared…
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From the History in the Margins Archives: McCarthyism and the Red Scare, Part 2. Attacking “Communists”, and Anyone Else Who Got In His Way
If it seems to you that I’ve run a lot of posts from the archives lately, you would be right. At the moment, I am overwhelmed by life stuff and simply don’t have the bandwidth to write new posts on a consistent basis. Instead of letting the blog go dark, when I don’t have something…
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