Thirty-Eighth Issue: A Civil Rights Activist, A Pilot, and A Princess
This issue I will be talking about three different people. They don’t really have anything much connecting them except that I found them interesting. If you...
Thirty-Seventh Issue: Diplomats during the Holocaust
I am always inspired by stories of individuals making a difference during times of great peril. This issue is about nine diplomats from countries all around...
Thirty Sixth Issue: Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta lived a few hundred years later than Ibn Sina, and he was more of a traveler and explorer than a scholar. He wrote a book of his journeys which...
Thirty Fifth Issue: Ibn Sina
I know I said I was going to talk about China, but I realized I had bitten off more than I could chew, so I will get to that eventually, but first I want to...
Thirty-Fourth Issue: The Golden Age of Islam
I know I JUST sent a newsletter last week, but I read a really cool book called When Asia Was the World and got really excited to share what I learned. It...
Thirty-Third Issue: Brigitta Scherzenfeldt, Boy, Boanthropy, and Missed Calls
This issue is just a bunch of random stories and anecdotes I’ve found on Wikipedia lately. Sorry it's a bit shorter than usual. I think the next issue may be...
Thirty-Second Issue: Natalie Clifford Barney and Her Lovers
Natalie Clifford Barney was a writer who was American but lived in Paris and ran a salon, where tons of writers and artists from the US, France, and Britain...
Thirty-first Issue: The Partition of India
Before I start, I want you to know I’m going to be talking about genocide and rape. If you don’t want to read about that sort of thing don’t read this issue....
Thirtieth Issue: Fearsome Critters
In my adventures on Wikipedia, a few years ago I came across a page called ‘Fearsome Critters’. These are cryptids (creatures whose existence cannot or has...
Twenty-Ninth Issue: Isabelle Eberhardt
Hello! I hope you had a good new year and holiday season! I can’t believe it’s been a year since I’ve been writing this newsletter. I’m thankful that all of...
Twenty-Eighth Issue: Soapy Smith
Hello! This week I will be talking about a man named Soapy Smith. He was quite a character in the American west around the time where someone would find gold...
Twenty-Seventh Issue: Winnaretta Singer
Winnaretta Singer had a pretty cool life. Her dad was Isaac Singer, of singer sewing machines, and her mom was French. She and her twenty three siblings...
Twenty-Sixth Issue: Hidden Identity
Warning for topics such as murder, kidnapping, and mention of sexual abuse. I read a long and interesting article about a man who had memory loss and did not...
Twenty-Fifth Issue: Sara Jane Olson
The summer I was eight years old, my family went to Minnesota for a month and a half to visit my grandparents. I barely remembered what the United States was...
Twenty-Fourth Issue: Pauli Murray and Ellen Craft
Sorry it has been a while, this issue of the newsletter has been in the works for a long while. I had to read a whole dense book for research. I say have as...
Twenty-Third Issue: Cats!
This issue is about cats. I want to get a cat. Cats are great. They have been on my mind lately. I was talking with my uncle the other day about cats – he’s...
Twenty Second Issue: A Sheep-Farming Soldier, a Lesbian Peter Pan, and a British Playwright
My apologies that this newsletter has not been more regular. I have been having trouble finding things I want to write about! So as I mention always,...
Twenty-First Issue: Lesbian Suffragettes
This week I am writing about women who were lesbians who helped out in Europe during World War I! I’ve been reading a book about Joe Carstairs who I...
Twentieth Issue: The Happy Valley Set
I'm sorry it's been a while! Life got in the way. This issue of the newsletter is pretty juicy though! It deals with scandalous behavior, including drugs,...
Nineteenth Issue: The Llewelyn Davies Boys
I spent some time this week reading about J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, and the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired his story. Barrie became friends...