Interviews
Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Paige Bowers
Paige Bowers first caught my attention because she kept popping up as an interesting voice in the Twitter thread of a mutual friend. Paige successfully straddles the world between journalism and history—a balancing act that is not as easy as she makes it look. A lifelong Francophile and history buff, she is the author of…
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Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Jason Porath
I must admit that I fan-girled hard when Jason Porath agreed to be part of this interview series. I’ve followed his work since 2014, when my then agent called him to my attention. Porath’s Rejected Princesses, and its sequel, Tough Mothers, began in a discussion with his Dreamworks’ co-workers over what historical woman was least…
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Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Adrienne Mayor
I first “met” Adrienne Mayor on the late lamented group history blog Wonders & Marvels, which both of us contributed to on a regular basis. I always looked forward to Adrienne’s posts. She wrote about quirky and fascinating topics that straddled the worlds of classical history and history of science: biological warfare in the ancient…
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