Tag Archives: History

Quick hit: the role of Black women activists in the Civil War

By Chloe | Published: May 2, 2011
TweetThere’s no better way to start the week than with some hardcore history nerdporn. So it’ a good thing that the Disunion blog at the New York Times, which chronicling the Civil War as it happened 150 years ago, is has posted a really interesting article on the role of Black women activists in the [...]
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Quick hit: Carl Sagan on why excluding women is a bad idea

By Chloe | Published: March 9, 2011
TweetFrom Letters of Note comes this missive on why excluding women from scientific organizations benefits no one, written by scientist Carl Sagan in 1981. Sagan was a member of The Explorers Club, an international society devoted to scientific exploration. Founded in 1904, the club still had not begun admitting women by the 1980s. Sagan penned [...]
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Breaking: Mubarak ‘most likely’ to step down tonight.

By Samhita | Published: February 10, 2011
TweetUPDATE: Mubarak is not stepping down as of yet. Clearly, he didn’t get the hint. According to several news sources, Hosni Mubarak may be stepping down tonight. The AP reports the military has made a national announcement that they are “stepping in to “safeguard the country,” and assured protesters that President Hosni Mubarak will meet their [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: A Strange Stirring

By Courtney | Published: February 3, 2011
TweetA book about a book. It’s a funny concept, but one that actually works quite powerfully in Stephanie Coontz’s new A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s. Coontz, the much-celebrated author of Marriage: A History, looks at the effect that Betty Friedan’s notorious tome had on a [...]
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Michele Bachman, “The US was founded on diversity.”

By Samhita | Published: January 24, 2011
TweetMichele Bachman proves to us that you don’t need to know a lot about American history to work in the American government. She typifies the “fake it till you make it,” ethos of young professionals, except when she fakes it she gets it all wrong, making you wonder if she really just believes the things [...]
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