Tag: Women’s history

• August 22, 2024

  Border Patrol: The Multicultural History of Siwa

  I really was going to move on from Egyptian content again for a bit (I like to keep you guessing), but then I went for a rare summer jaunt down to CMOA/CMNH just to stretch my legs a bit before Oakland fills up for the next semester. I usually don’t go to the museums much…
• July 1, 2023

  Revolutionary Women: The Ladies of The Flight of Virtue

  We’re back this week with more Flight of Virtue content, and I thought I’d make good on my threat to delve into some background information on the women who make up the core supporting cast of my novel behind Theo Burr. Because while I had a blast writing a lot of the men, this was…
• January 28, 2022

  Sanity and Succession: Pre-Modern Mental Health and Courts in Crisis 

  “On the thirteenth day, Heaven and Earth clashed and the sun and the moon turned black. When this calamity happened, how could I desire to live one second longer!” – Lady Hyegyong, The Memoir of 1795 “Dispute not with her, she is a lunatic.” – the Marquess of Dorset on Queen Margaret, Richard III (I, sc. 3) Oy,…