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Rachel Carson and the Paradigm Shift

In 2007, a member of the United States Senate drafted a resolution to honor the 100th anniversary of the birth of a famous biologist; a woman who had been most at home with her nose in a book or on the shores of the sea. Things didn’t go as planned. Havoc ensued as a senator from Oklahoma mounted an outraged resistance against the woman’s memory. The controversial woman was Rachel Carson.

Carson grew up in Pennsylvania and was born with a gift for words—she talked early and had a story publ...

An FDR White House Christmas

Presidential History Blog

For twelve years, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt occupied in the White House and spent more Christmas holidays there than any other first family.

President and Mrs. Roosevelt. A signed, framed photograph has always been a popular POTUS-FLOTUS gift to staff members.

Strictly Roosevelt Traditions

FDR had style in everything – even carving a turkey.

Some holiday traditions are more or less universal. Then, of course, there are those personal traditions that nearly...

Communicating Death & Creating Memory on Fredericksburg’s Streets

Irish in the American Civil War

I have recently had a conference paperaccepted on the topic ofletters communicating bereavement to those on the Home Front. Since I began my work on the widow’s and dependent pension files, I have become particularly interested in these types of document, and in exploring the multitude of questions we can ask of them. How was news of death transmitted? Whatdegree of detail was provided (or not)? What was the language of consolation (if any) employed by the wri...

Beyond the Veneer: Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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On the 10th of December 1928, Glaswegian designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh died in London relatively unknown and destitute. He was one of the artists who reaffirmed craftsmanship at a time of emerging Northern industrialization. He agreed with those in the British Arts and Crafts Movement who hailed a return to the individual touch of crafts to counteract the monotony of mass-produced, production line factory goods. Many called him “a prophet of modernism;...

Seventeen Ounces of Roman Gold Found in Central Norway

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We can always count on ThorNews to bring us the latest on everything in the news related to Vikings, which is actually quite a lot for a civilization that was at its height over 1000 years ago! This latest article details a historical mystery involving various rings, dating from Roman times, that somehow found their way to Viking-era Norway. Fascinating to ponder how they got there!

These gold rings of Roman origin are dating back to the period 200 to 400 AD. (Photo: Håva...

The Mysterious Mary Magdalene.

If It Happened Yesterday, It's History

Penitent Magdalene by artist Guido Reni, c. 1635,Walters Art Museum.

Mary Magdalene is to simply put it an enigma. She is one of the more fascinating characters or persons from the gospels. Her devotion to Christ is second to none, which might explain our fascination or affections towards her. She is I believe an incorruptible heroine of the faith and not the sinner and fallen women that she was portrayed as during the Middle Ages. I think it’s fair t...

Family of Queen Katherine: Lady Anne Clifford

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Lady Anne Clifford, Countess Dowager of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, suo jure 14th Baroness de Clifford (30 January 1590 – 22 March 1676) was an English peeress in her own right. She descended from Princess Mary, Duchess of Suffolk, the daughter of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York by Mary’s daughter, Lady Eleanor Brandon (aunt of Lady Jane Grey). She married into the Herbert family; Sir Philip, 4th Earl of Pembroke. Pembroke was the grandson of Lady Anne Herbert; the Quee...

Meandering Malice (Book #21)

She’s cold, she’s tired, and she just wants to go home to her family. Those preventing Alice from reaching her goals are about to learn there is a steep price to pay when you get in her way. With…

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Princess Victoria and the gypsies, part 2

All Things Georgian

We’re delighted that you have joined us for the second part of this post. So, following on from part 1 we have managed to tease out a whole list of names that Princess Victoria was given by the gypsies she met at Claremont, so we wanted to explore the family group in more detail to see if we could find out what became of them after their royal encounter.

Firstly, Princess Victoria confirms for us the family name – Cooper – and that a baby was due to a member of the family...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: the Most Prolific All-Around Athlete in Sports History

For young women with athletic aspirations, life before the enactment of Title IX was vastly different. Primary physical activities for women included cheerleading and square dancing, and a mere 1 in 27 girls played sports in their high school years. Scholarships for female athletics were virtually unheard of, and women received a mere 2 percent of a school’s overall athletic budget.

Despite the limitations placed on women in the decades before the enactment of Title IX, many women had succ...