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Women’s History
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.
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With Women's History Month approaching, I took the opportunity to do a little research on how the field of women's history began.
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It was fun to discover a convergence of two diametrically opposed characters that brought together two independent strands of my writing.
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This image of St. Javelin is a potent reminder that women's history is dynamic and ever evolving.
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It's not explicit that the song "Wichita Lineman" is about a guy, but it doesn’t have to be. Back then, a woman climbing a phone pole to repair a line was as rare as a dodo bird.
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Captain Deborah Dempsey's most telling comment was: "It's fun to be the boss."
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I knew, of course, that Perkins was Secretary of Labor under FDR, the first woman to hold a cabinet position, but I knew little else about her. The accolade of "first" made it seem that was enough to know. I was so wrong.
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Did you know that Carrie Chapman Catt was more than a suffragist? I didn't, but now I do. Read on!
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My reading list is idiosyncratic, a reflection of my personal interests and feelings. How did you decide what to read this summer?
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We bring our personal experiences to the art we see, hear and read.
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