I really enjoy dipping my toes into veins of history that are completely new to me.Read More

In honor of Women's History Month, I'm sharing a few thoughts about how first-person accounts from women in history enliven their stories and help us understand their lives.Read More

A spirit of fair play and a desire to do justice to the stranger within our gates - words that make me nostalgic and maybe a little optimistic, too.Read More

In 1888, a drive of 60 miles was extraordinary. Bertha Benz was the first person to undertake such a drive.Read More

The story of Mary Ann Brown Patten, the first woman to captain an American merchant ship, leaves me in awe.Read More

With two self-arranged "field trips" and some book research, I've been learning about women in factories at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.Read More

Plunging into a compelling topic, even one with a tangential relationship to my current book project, is one of the pleasures of writing.Read More

I'm delighted to share Patricia Meisol's guest post about Dr. Helen Taussig, a pioneering physician and the subject of Patricia's biography, A Heart Afire.Read More

With Women's History Month approaching, I took the opportunity to do a little research on how the field of women's history began.Read More

It was fun to discover a convergence of two diametrically opposed characters that brought together two independent strands of my writing.Read More