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A Spot in the Woods
My Time at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
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KING is for Coretta
The Quiet Feminism of Jonathan Eig's Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A Thank You
And a tiny lesson in resilience from Catherine de’ Medici
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Looking for Bertrande de Rols, Part 2
Some thoughts on Janet Lewis's novella 'The Wife of Martin Guerre'
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Looking for Bertrande de Rols, Part 1
Happy November, friends. I hope you and your families are safe and well. Last month, I wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal on five of my…
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A King in Hand
Rethinking the Bayonne Portrait and Subversive Female Networks
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My Newsletter Has a New Look
Introducing "Close Reading"
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Remembering, and Dismembering, a Queen
Some thoughts on Catherine Parr's hair
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If Mary, Queen of Scots Lived in a Game
If only our historical characters could choose their own endings
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On Book Launches, Spring Weather, and a Forgotten Queen
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Art, Power, and a Tiny Portrait
The Story is Never Fully Written
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Mary, Queen of Scots in the News
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Two Covers
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