Historical

Celia Fiennes . . .. . . was amazing.  Celia was born in 1662, in Salisbury, a 15-minute modern-day drive from Stonehenge. Remarkably, Celia rode side-saddle through every county in…

Aviva and Keith Siegel lived in Kibbutz Kfar Aza until October 7. Keith was shot in the arm and suffered broken ribs. They were kept together until Aviva's release in…

A friend’s recent inquiry about my origins had me revisiting the family history. My father's last name was shortened from ‘Kazekevitch-Rabinovitch’ to ‘Cavitch’ upon their entry to the U.S. at…

Doris Kearns Goodwin When Biden announced he would be stepping down as a candidate, I was staying in Michigan with my best bud from college and beyond. Her husband had…

In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists—mostly women—gathered in Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss the issue of women’s rights. Most of the delegates to the Seneca Falls Convention agreed:  American…

I woke up in the middle-of-the-night, which I never did at the tender age of 14. Something compelled me to turn on my transistor radio (yes, I am that old} that lay…

A week after finishing Daniel Siva’s A Death in Vienna, one passage remains with me, a film loop, a film loop, a film loop. Silva’s books follow the Israeli art restorer/’intelligence’…

“But cursed are dullards whom no cannon stuns,That they should be as stones.”   from Insensibility  by Wilfred Owen Gaza City Mahmud Hans AFP Getty Images When I was a young girl, I…

I graduated from high school in 1971. The following list is of NINE things a woman couldn’t do in 1971. In 1971 a woman could not: 1. Get a Credit…

From Maine to California, thousands of communities across the United States historically practiced - and in some cases, still practice - a form of racial segregation by excluding racial or…