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That moment when you realized you dropped s small bag of groceries in the medicine disposal slot instead of your expired medicine

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I put off reading Empresses of Seventh Avenue because I didn't think it was my kind of history. I was wrong. 🗃️ More here: https://tinyurl.com/yu5wvv95

Looking for first use of the term "female entrepreneur"--as opposed to examples of women functioning as entrepreneurs. The OED has failed me. Any clues?

Ready to feed hungry musicians at a bav porch jam

After all these years... I still stop for historical markers. Still wander into little museums. Still buy too many books. Still ask one more question. I suspect curiosity gets better with age. 🗃️

History lovers rarely stay neutral for long. Sooner or later, we all choose sides. Which historical hill are you willing to die on? 🗃️ https://tinyurl.com/yc8dztyn

Every old photograph tells at least two stories. The one the photographer intended... ...and the one hiding in the background. I've learned to spend as much time looking at the edges as the center. 🗃️

At the stage in this project when I need to spend a day or two each week buried in the library, which means I once again need to figure out packing lunches. Today's attempt: a hunk of good cheese (cheddar-ish with leeks), a plum, and a couple of oat cakes.

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A Hairdresser Noticed Something Strange About Roman Statues—and Solved a 2,000-Year-Old PuzzleThe answer was hiding in an obscure Latin word that scholars had been mistranslating for decades.www.popularmechanics.com

When the same historical figure keeps turning up in your reading, it's usually worth paying attention. Lately, that's been Mary Heaton Vorse. 🗃️ More: https://tinyurl.com/2tseuabd

Writing history isn't just about finding information. It's about deciding what to leave out. Every fascinating detail can't make the final page. Every rabbit hole can't become a chapter. (Though some of them try very hard.) That's the challenge—and the joy—of being a historian.

Rabbit Hole #1 I thought I was finished researching women journalists after The Dragon From Chicago. Apparently history had other plans. Every time I answer one question, another forgotten reporter appears. I'm beginning to think the story is much bigger than we were taught. 🗃️

Sometimes the best writing day is the one where you admit defeat and open the archives. This week I revisited my review of Endpapers by Alexander Wolff. 🗃️ More: https://tinyurl.com/5ns6t6nj

The best part of finishing a history book? All the new questions. Every project leaves me with a list of stories I didn't have room to tell. That's one reason I never really stop researching.

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Still Willing To Tell the Truth, Whatever the CostTeachers, rangers, and historians holding the line on American memoryopen.substack.com

I started writing a review of Deborah Lipstadt's Beyond Belief… …only to discover I'd already reviewed it several years ago. Since it was worth rediscovering, I'm resharing it.🗃️ More: https://tinyurl.com/nhea53vp

For years, women warriors were treated as exceptions. Then I started putting their stories side by side. That's when the pattern appeared. 🗃️ Sometimes history doesn't need another example. It needs a bigger frame.

How many similar discoveries will it take before we stop being surprised? www.sciencealert.com/ancient-egyp...

Bones of Ancient Egyptian Princesses Reveal They Were Kind of BadassAncient Egyptian princesses actually knew how to use the weapons they were buried with, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.www.sciencealert.com

Remembering isn't passive. Museums choose artifacts. Authors choose stories. Families choose photographs. History isn't just preserved. It's curated. That makes one question especially important: What have we forgotten?

I recently visited Americans and the Holocaust. It's a small exhibition that asks very big questions about what Americans knew, what they believed, and what they chose to do. It has stayed with me. https://tinyurl.com/423kkk7y