Odd Bits
Thinking about Women’s History–an Update
Morning, all: I just realized that though the TEDx talk shows beautifully on the website it didn’t come through on emails. You didn’t even get a live link. I tested it several times, but obviously did not succeed in finding a problem. If this version doesn’t come through, you can click the header on the…
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Queen Magrethe I, Pt. 2
One of my favorite things about writing this blog is the conversations I have with my readers about the subjects of my posts, or in fact about history in general. This morning I got a sidebar to the life of Queen Margrethe I from textile maven Julie Holyoke, who is my cousin by marriage and…
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From the Archives: Joan of Arc and the French resistance
More than once in the last few years, I’ve stumbled across stories in old issues of the Chicago Tribune that caught my imagination even though they did not deal with my current project. This headline from May 13, 1945, grabbed my attention: “FRANCE HONORS JOAN OF ARC AS ‘FIRST PARTISAN’. “ The piece began “The…
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