Posts by Pamela
Helping to Write Women’s History
One of the greatest challenges in writing history is reading handwritten documents from the past. Many times over the last few years I found myself cursing struggling with Sigrid Schultz’s letters.* Her handwriting was not great. Her use of punctuation was erratic. (I blame this on years of writing stories in cablese and sending telegrams.…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Kip Wilson
Kip Wilson is the author of critically-acclaimed young adult verse novels White Rose (Versify, 2019), about anti-Nazi political activist Sophie Scholl, The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin (Versify, 2022), set in a queer club in Berlin during the last days of the Weimar Republic, and One Last Shot (Versify, 2023), about anti-fascist Spanish Civil War…
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Talking About Women’s History: A Bunch of Questions and an Answer with Dr. Emma Southon
Back in November at least half a dozen of my friends sent me the link to an essay by Emma Southon, titled “Why We Need a Women’s History of the Roman Empire.” I read it and was hooked by the voice and the ideas. I immediately ordered her delightfully titled book, A Rome of One’s…
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