Category Archives: History

Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Teresa

My future was a matter of complete indifference to me. I felt neither anxiety or fear. In any case there was nothing I could do. In my mind I retraced my strange journey from Moscow, always south, always further south, … Continue reading →

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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Teresa

Earlier this year, the media was full of stories recognizing and educating Americans about the Tulsa race massacre. Although the destruction of Greenwood (or Black Wall Street) was a particularly horrifying instance of racist violence, it was far from isolated. … Continue reading →

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In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins

Posted on July 25, 2021 by Teresa

It’s been a while since I read a big serious theology book. Back when I was taking seminary classes, I read this kind of thing all the time, but now I tend to read books that are written for a … Continue reading →

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What I Read This Summer: August Readings

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Teresa

Continuing my record of books I read while on blogging break. If you want to chat about any of these, please comment! Stranger in the House by Julie Summers: A really informative book about how reuniting families in Great Britain coped … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiction, History, Nonfiction | 6 Comments

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Posted on March 16, 2019 by Teresa

Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina and escaped to the North in 1842. In 1861, this book, recounting her experiences in slavery and eventual escape was published under the pseudonym Linda Brent (and, as Linda is the … Continue reading →

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Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant

Posted on July 21, 2018 by Teresa

When I first saw the trailer for the movie Victoria and Abdul last year, I’ll admit that I rolled my eyes a little. It looked too cutesy, and perhaps too guilty of romanticizing British colonialism. But when I heard that there … Continue reading →

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The Cooking Gene

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Teresa

Subtitled “A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South,” this book by Michael Twitty is part memoir and part history in which Twitty traces his own genetic heritage through food. Born in Washington, DC, Twitty shunned the … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, History, Nonfiction | 3 Comments

White Rage

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Jenny

Carol Anderson’s book White Rage is surprisingly brief — only about 165 pages — but it is as powerful as a vaccine. If you read it, you won’t be able to look at American history (or your own education) in … Continue reading →

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Sally Heathcote, Suffragette

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Jenny

I haven’t written a blog post for over two months, and I’m not sure… why not? I’ve just been very busy and tired, and I’ve been reading, but not at my usual volume, and when I’ve thought about writing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Biography, Graphic Novels / Comics, History, Nonfiction | 6 Comments

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives

Posted on December 16, 2017 by Teresa

The story of how Mary Shelley came up with the idea for Frankenstein as part of a storytelling competition is fairly well known, but that’s far from the only instance of how the circle around the Shelleys influenced each other, both … Continue reading →

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