1624: The Year in Review

In 2013, I wrote my first A Year in Review post: for some reason that I no longer remember I had been spending a lot of time thinking/reading/writing about 1913 and wanted to share some of the highlights. Over the next few years, Year in Review posts became a standard part of December here on…

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In the Realm of a Dying Emperor

Women’s History Month is barreling toward us and I am happily working on bringing you another March full of mini-interviews with people who are doing interesting work in women’s history. In the meantime, I’m sharing some of the books that I’ve rediscovered in the process of finding room on my office shelves for the books…

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From the Archives–Samurai: The Last Warrior

I’m currently embroiled in proofreading the endnotes for The Dragon From Chicago.  It’s a headache-inducing job, but it is the one part of the book in which no one can catch the errors except the writer.  (Probably the person who made one of them. )  Instead of hoping I pick up speed and can squeeze…

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