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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Leah Leach of Gal’s Guide to the Galaxy
As is the case with so many of my friends in Women’s History World, I met Leah Leach of Gal’s Guide to the Galaxy on Twitter. (Don’t let anyone tell you social media has no value.) Gal’s Guide to the Galaxy is an in-the-trenches grassroots organization dedicated to spreading the word about women’s history. Here’s…
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Eugene V. Debs: Socialist for President, Over and Over Again
Labor organizer Eugene V. Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1855. He left home when he was fourteen to work for the railroad—not unusual for the time. In 1875, he helped organize a local lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman, a fraternal benefit society which gradually took on the role of a…
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A Brief History of the Pencil
One of the unexpected things I learned during our visit to Nuremberg over the holidays is that the city was the home to the first mass-produced graphite lead pencils, beginning in 1662. Before we visited Nuremberg, I hadn’t given the history of pencils much thought.* In fact, the only piece of pencil history that I…
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