Writing unexpected history for smart adults and curious kids - and vice-versa. Author of Women Warriors and the forthcoming The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany. Kickass cook. www.pameladtoler.com
Pamela Toler (she/her)
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I curated a (mostly) exhaustive list of Juneteenth celebrations across the country. Chances are there’s one near you!
Hard to focus on the work when the day's schedule is flapping in the breeze.
History isn't made only in parliaments and palaces.
Sometimes it's made in an apartment in Berlin, over baked beans, with journalists, diplomats, artists, and politicians crowded around the table.🗃️
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Before Isabella Stewart Gardner built a museum, she built a museum in her mind.🗃️
I loved Natalie Dykstra's Chasing Beauty and wrote a few thoughts about Gardner, collecting, and curiosity on the blog
More: https://tinyurl.com/576p8bbd
Historians have spent centuries explaining why women warriors didn't really fight.
Women warriors, meanwhile, keep showing up in the historical record.
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What if the American Revolution wasn't just a story about thirteen colonies?
I'm revisiting Independence Lost by Kathleen DuVal, a book that explores the Revolution from a very different perspective. 🗃️
More: https://tinyurl.com/3d6yz8fe
Good stuff to read as I hang out in a hotel room this Sunday.
Every historian knows that memory is fragile.
Stories disappear, lost, forgotten.
For decades, Opal Lee worked to keep the story of Juneteenth alive because she believed it mattered.
She reminds us that preserving memory is an act of leadership—and sometimes a story can change a nation.
Smart simple actions, recommended by one of my favorite newsletter writers
20 Small Acts of Media Literacy We Can Practice Every Day
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#juneteenth
Family history is political history is American history.
Also one of the best books ever.
Juneteenth marks the day when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation. I curated a list of events and one may be near you!
