Book Review: The Princess Diarist
Book Review: The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher Most of my readers know about my dual fascination with both history and science and my love of fiction in both genres. I mostly blog about the history and science stuff, but also review books or movies about HF and...
Rebecca Solnit: Two Books for Activists
Rebecca Solnit: Two Books for Activists Coming out of Women's History Month, I wanted to share with you a women historian, writer and activist I recently discovered. Rebecca Solnit has been active in social justice movements and writing for nearly forty years. How is...
Exceptional Women in History Part II
Exceptional Women in History Part II: She Captains, Scientists, and Musicians Last week in Part I, I introduced you to three books of exceptional women in history which primarily covered royals and aristocrats. This week we look more closely at (un)common women in...
Exceptional Women in History Part I
Exceptional Women in History Part I: Scandalous Women, Bad Princesses and Female Kings It's Women's History Month and I thought I'd provide readers and writers alike with some resources on exceptional women in history. I have a soft spot for a particular a kind of...
Book Review: Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong— and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini I love science and history and truly enjoy it when they overlap in books such as Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting...
Book Review: Notorious RGB: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik It's Women's History Month so here is another entry in books by and/or about women. I've been a fan of Ruth Bader Ginsburg since my earliest feminist days. The second woman to...
Book Review: Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly "Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians know...
Book Review – March: Book Three
March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin (co-authors), Nate Powell (Illustrator) I finished the third volume in civil rights icon John Lewis' graphic memoir about his early days in the movement leading up to the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. (If you...
Book Review – March: Book One and Two
March: Book One and March: Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin (Co-authors), Nate Powell (Artist) Blurb: March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the...
Book Review: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and Other Writings
Book Review: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and Other Writings Blurb: "This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass'...
“My Hair!” A Birthday Adventure
Yesterday was my birthday and I learned something new. I usually love learning something new. Yesterday’s lesson—not so much. Have you heard of 4DX? Neither had I. Until yesterday. But let me set this up. I have a few modest birthday traditions. I try not to work on...
A Day at the Pompeii Arena
A Day at the Pompeii Arena It’s a sunny day in Pompeii on April 8th in this first year of the reign of Imperator Titus Caesar Vespasianus Augustus (AD 79). The crowds surge toward the amphitheater for the games given by D. Lucretius Stater Valens, a lifelong priest to...