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Her Name Was Mary Katharine and she (kinda) signed the Declaration of Independence.

Her Name Was Mary Katharine: The Only Woman Whose Name Is on the Declaration of Independence by Ella Schwartz

January 24, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Her Name Was Mary Katharine Goddard and she signed the Declaration of Independence. No really! Like the young woman who struck out Babe Ruth, Jackie Mitchell, she was a woman of the Revolution War (and before) who did grand things and you probably do not know she even existed. In the picture book Her Name Was Mary Katharine: The Only Woman Whose Name Is on the Declaration of Independence we get a peek in to the life of a young girl and how she made […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Colonial history, Declaration of Independence., Dow Phumiruk, Ella Schwartz, Mary Katharine Goddard

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:29 · Genres: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Colonial history, Declaration of Independence., Dow Phumiruk, Ella Schwartz, Mary Katharine Goddard ·
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Ghosts that haunt us still

Ghosts of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng

December 30, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

This non-fiction journey through six former British colonies is very timely, as five of them made the news this year: Hong Kong (protests); Kashmir (India revoking its special status); Burma (the Rohingya massacres and war crimes charges in the Hague); Iraq (continuing unrest and instability) and Sudan (protests and the ouster of longtime dictator, Omar al-Bashir).  The sixth country, Nigeria, has thankfully had a relatively quiet 2019. Kwarteng’s overall thesis is that the British governed their colonies on an ad hoc basis, with policy being […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: British history, Colonial history, Ghosts of Empire, Kwasi Kwarteng

Wanderlustful's CBR11 Review No:58 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: British history, Colonial history, Ghosts of Empire, Kwasi Kwarteng ·
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