Tag: history

• What I’m reading: Democracy Awakening

  Alternatingly enlightening, infuriating, and discouraging, historian Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, should be required reading for anyone who wants to make sense of today’s social and political climate. She is a professor of history at Boston College This book is like an AP American History class packed into one…

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  April 17, 2024

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  Cox Richardson, current events, democracy, history, reading, social justice, writing

• Unanswerable questions

  Family still haunts my thoughts and my writing – division, dysfunction, lack of communication, the many elephants in the room. And as we say farewell to yet another family elder, the questions continue to pile up: How did you end up settling in Woodville, of all places in between? Did your mother bring the washstand…

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  February 26, 2024

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  family, history, mysteries, questions, writing

• OAT: History lessons aren’t just for the young…

  …and they can be interesting! This week’s OAT introduces two special books: Trudy Krisher’s FANNY SEWARD: A LIFE (recently-announced winner of the Silver Medal for Best Regional Non-Fiction from the Independent Publishers Association) for adults: “At last Fanny Seward, the precocious, perceptive daughter of Secretary of State William Seward, gets her own book, the book…

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  May 14, 2015

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  history, horses, Lincoln, Seward, Trudy Krisher