Tag: American history
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Stolen Valor: Museums and the Reclamation of North American Indigenous History
I did my quarterly museum walk over at the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History yesterday, with a somewhat unusual for me emphasis on the latter. CMOA is currently in major flux as the International is in the process of being taken down and boxed off to destinations unknown, so huge swathes of it…
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America’s Polymath Pirate Queen: The Brief Wondrous Life of Theodosia Burr Alston
“If I could foresee that Theo would become a mere fashionable woman, with all the attendant frivolity and vacuity of mind, adorned with whatever grace and allurement, I would earnestly pray God to take her forewith hence. But I yet hope by, her, to convince the world what neither sex appears to believe—that women have…
Sarah Holz 