Category: Spanish Civil War
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She wasn’t trying to write history the way it had been accepted. She was trying to ask, ‘what if the version we’ve been handed is wrong?’ @KnitWithDeborah talking about Barbara G. Walker‘s work Barbara Walker’s ideas were about history with a capital H. But this can easily be applied to individual histories and it is now…
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They will look at your last name, check the family history, and you won’t get the job. When my aunt applied for a position at an agricultural extension office in the early 1970s, my grandfather warned her: “They will look at your last name, check the family history, and you won’t get the job.” His words were…
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Grief, I have come to believe, is one of the trickiest terrains most of us will eventually have to negotiate. Like most painful experiences, we do our best to avoid mourning our losses. We try to define grief, to mold it into our human illusions of an orderly and comprehensible world. We come up with…
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“My dear friend, I keep your brother’s sad letters like they are relics. I say sad because he always sent me such sentimental letters that sometimes, when I read them, I burst out in tears. I tried to cheer him up, but he was such a sensitive soul that nothing could comfort him.” Letter from…
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A simple list of names: seven men; one woman. The first two names on the list were a married couple, I know a little bit about them, not enough. I know nothing about the other six men on the list. They are all, however, joined in eternity. A married couple and six other humans they…