Understand history, Understand the world. Thinking out loud with Erika Harlitz-Kern, PhD and Historian-at-Large.
I have signed a book contract with Routledge to write a textbook in women s history. The book will be titled Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Viking World. I am very excited to write this book, and Routledge is a great publisher. The image above is of Lagertha from the TV-show VIKINGS. I will be dedicating [ ]
"Gator Country" takes seriously what Floridians already know, and few people outside the state understand, that living in Florida is living on the edge--of the swamp, of the North American continent, of life.
The strength of How to Be lies exactly here, in the acknowledgment of new ideas and new developments happening in the encounters, in the borderlands, and on the peripheries.
Hillary Clinton is without a doubt one of the most controversial persons in the United States. You either love her or hate her. She is either a liberator of women or the lead FemiNazi. Personal opinions aside, the fact remains that Hillary Clinton has blazed a trail for women for decades. She has been unapologetic [ ]
In "The Manuscripts Club," Christopher de Hamel introduces us to a group of people who dedicated their lives to collecting medieval manuscripts. In other words, nerds.
In which I review Jennifer Lunden's memoir "American Breakdown," a historical exposé that reveals how attitudes that harm us are ingrained into what we perceive as normal.
After reviewing Artem Mozgovoy s powerful and insightful debut novel Spring in Siberia for Foreword Reviews, I was given the opportunity to interview Mozgovoy as part of the magazine s Reviewers Interviewing Authors series. This series, to which I now have contributed five times, is a great way of getting to know the authors better and address [ ]
In this week's post, I focus on five Instagram creators (+ one bonus) that bring me joy. I hope you will find joy in their work too.
At first glance Central European history of the Middle Ages and the Early-Modern Period is genuinely confusing. Dominated by the Holy Roman Empire, which Swedish historian Harald Gustafsson has called an entity that floated around the map of Central Europe for a thousand years, Central Europe seemed to be eternally embroiled in constantly changing alliances [ ]
It's time for another round up of books I have reviewed for Foreword Reviews. Enjoy!