Innovation – Page 11 – History in the Margins

History on Display: A Picture Postcard’s Worth a Thousand Words

By Pamela | April 16, 2022 |

I recently spent ten days in Boston and Connecticut. Officially, it was a research trip. Unofficially, it was a chance to spend some long overdue time with my BFF from graduate school. I definitely put in time on the book, with a lot of help from Karin, who believes in getting the work done. We…

1921: A Year in Review (With a brief nod to 1941)

By Pamela | December 18, 2021 |

For my last substantive post of 2021, I was torn between looking at 1921 and 1941. I finally decided that 1941 had received lots of attention in Historyland, at least in the United States, thanks to the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Every major media source, and a lot of minor ones,…

From Trench Warfare to Trench Coat? duh

By Pamela | November 29, 2021 |

I was happily taking notes about the transformation of the Chicago Tribune’s Army Edition into that paper’s Paris Edition in the years after World War I —a subject I’ve spent quite a bit of time on during the last couple of years. I wasn’t expecting to learn much that was new, but I have…