The Romance of the Rails and the Pleasure of Remembering
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America’s First Ladies and their Jewelry
The types of jewelry the various first ladies wore and what they spent on their adornments gives an interesting lens through which to view a presidency as well as a
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Preservation of a 260-Year-Old Stove and Why It Matters
Earlier this month on my trip to Frederick, Maryland, the tourism board had organized wonderful days for me. Among the sites they planned for me to visit was Schifferstadt Museum.
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Assuring That Women’s Stories are Told
Gloria Steinem has been quoted as saying, “If we don’t see a history with women, we don’t know that we can create it.” My final post for the month of
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Health Care Update: 1910
This week the news was filled with stories about the passage of the health care reform bill of 2010, and it occurred to me that it might be an opportune
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A Moment in Time: Education for Southern Blacks, 1940
Learning a little sometimes reveals a lot. Tuesday night I attended a screening of a recently discovered film from 1940 that was thought to have been permanently lost. After being
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