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Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and An Answer with Theresa Kaminski

By Pamela | March 13, 2019 |

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.…

Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Paige Bowers

By Pamela | March 7, 2019 |

Paige Bowers first caught my attention because she kept popping up as an interesting voice in the Twitter thread of a mutual friend. Paige successfully straddles the world between journalism and history—a balancing act that is not as easy as she makes it look. A lifelong Francophile and history buff, she is the author of…

Women at the Siege of Leningrad

By Pamela | February 8, 2019 |

[WARNING: For the next few weeks, it’s going to be all women warriors (and occasionally Women Warriors) all the time here at the Margins as we lead up to my publication date of February 26. I’ll try to keep the My Book! My Book! to a minimum and focus on the stories instead, but I…