I work in Public History, but any good public historian (or historian of any stripe) will tell you that it is nearly impossible to know all eras and areas well. There are inevitable blind spots – you must choose where to apply your limited time. When this year’s Read Harder challenge asked us to read a history about a period you know little about, I was stoked, an excuse to go back further than I normally do and read about some women doing the leading. […]
Fourteen Hundred Years of History; Still Uncovering the Women whose Achievements were Hidden.
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak
