Women’s History Month
Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Scott Stern
When I asked the people at Beacon Press whether there were other Beacon authors who would be a good fit for this series, several people immediately answered Scott Stern, author of The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison ‘Promiscuous’ Women. The book is the account of a little…
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Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and An Answer with Theresa Kaminski
Theresa Kaminski and I are co-administrators (and occasionally, co-conspirators) for a Facebook reading called Non-Fiction Fans, where readers and writers of narrative nonfiction meet up to talk about great non-fiction and how it gets written. She is also a wonderful writer of women’s history and a generous member of the on-line literary and historical community.…
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Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Vanya Eftimova Bellinger
Vanya Eftimova Bellinger and I became acquainted three years ago after I heard her speak about her then new book, Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of ON WAR at the Pritzker Military Library. I was fascinated. Bellinger not only introduced me to an engaging historical figure about whom I knew absolutely nothing,…
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