Odd Bits
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
As soon as I heard the title of Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos’s first book, The Pirate Next Door, I was hooked. Daphne is an author, historian and journalist. She has published over 40 articles in newspapers and magazines. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Southern Living, Virginia Business and The…
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From the Archives: Was Prof. Bhaer a ’48-er?
Today’s blog post just blew up in my face. It happens. Instead of scrambling to put something together, or simply not posting, I decided to run an updated version of a post from 2015 that relates to some of the issues I was thinking about. There will be new stuff next week,I promise. And an…
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Weird History
Let me make it clear from the beginning that Desert Oracle is very different from the books I generally share with you here on the Margins. It is not a work of narrative history, but history is woven throughout it. Weird history, true, but history nonetheless. Desert Oracle is the outgrowth of a more-or-less quarterly…
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