Posts Tagged ‘heroines of mercy street’
Mercy Street, Round 2
Back in November I promised you that I wouldn’t clutter History in the Margins with little bits of news and speaking gigs. And I intend to keep that promise. But I want to give the Marginalia a heads up that the PBS series Mercy Street will air a second season starting on January 22. Which…
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In Which Paper Sleuth Interviews Me About Writing, History, and Writing Heroines of Mercy Street
This post is an object lesson in being careful what you ask for. Long-time reader Bart Ingraldi, who blogs about history at Paper Sleuth using paper ephemera as a lens for writing about issues that are anything but ephemeral* recently suggested I interview myself here on the Margins. Instead I turned the suggestion around and…
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Dorothea Dix Volunteers
“Dragon” Dix was a shadowy and controversial figure in the opening scenes of the PBS series, Mercy Street. The historical Miss Dix was just as controversial. For those of you who don’t have the details of the American Civil War at your fingertips: the war began at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, when troops…
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