From the Archives: Rural Free Delivery

  Over the last several months, I have been working my way through a stack of “get out the vote” postcards: writing as legibly as possible. (Always a challenge for me.) Now I’m at the deadline and writing a little more quickly and a little less legibly. * Since I am under a bit of…

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Thinking about Women’s History–an Update

Morning, all:  I just realized that though the TEDx talk shows beautifully on the website it didn’t come through on emails.  You didn’t even get a live link.   I tested it several times, but obviously did not succeed in finding a problem. If this version doesn’t come through, you can click the header on the…

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Thinking About Women’s History, or Herstory if You Prefer

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…

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