Odd Bits
In which I announce that Women Warriors is out in paperback–and immediately wander off topic
For historical reasons related to the sale of books that I do not entirely understand, new books almost always release on Tuesdays. Today it is my turn. The paperback edition of Women Warriors released today and I am jazzed. I wish I could claim that I took the way new books are released into account when…
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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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Putting Women’s History on the Map
This is less of a blog post and more of a public service announcement. The National Trust for Historic Preservation wants to identify one thousand places where American women made history in celebration of the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote. You can find all the details here: https://savingplaces.org/where-women-made-history The trick is not going…
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