Sketches
These beautiful images come from the Slate’s history blog – The Vault. The sketches of women working during WWII are really contemplative and lovely: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/02/06/gladys_reed_sketches_of_life_as_a_wren_during_wwii.html Advertisements
Common Sense Has To Prevail
This is a sweet note from Alex aboard the S.S. Pennsylvania. He wrote it in January of 1945 but it was not postmarked until February 5th. He writes of the … Continue reading
Heart to Heart
Hello and thank you for your patience! It has been some months since I last posted, but the reason for that actually relates to this blog. I began writing about … Continue reading
NYTimes on the Brooklyn Navy Yard
The Times has featured a look at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The 13th slide is a photo of BLDG92, the interactive museum/community center where Sylvia’s letters are still on display: … Continue reading
LA Review of Books
Again, this is not particularly blog related but a piece a wrote has been published by the LA Review of Books, see it here! It is about the book From … Continue reading
American Girl Dolls
This is not exactly related to my grandparents but it does have to do with femininity in history! I wrote this for the Huffington Post: American Girl: How Radical Can a … Continue reading
Confronting Censorship
The final installment of my posts on the Brooklyn Navy Yard Blog has gone up! Check it out here: http://bldg92.org/blog/confronting-censorship-1/
