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Editor’s Corner: Favorite Stories
In last week’s Editor’s Corner column, I encouraged everyone to send along questions about researching and writing about history—or about writing life in general. Keep them coming please! It’s easy:...
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Searching for the Ghost of Edgar Allen Poe
By Stephanie Cowell (Regular Contributor) He died in poverty and was found in clothes not his own. He was only forty years old. Two years before, he had lost his wife/cousin whom he had married when...
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Books We Love
Archival Detectives Archives play a major role for all of us at Wonders & Marvels. Whether we’re sitting in the hushed reading rooms at the Wellcome Library or wandering the gardens and museums...
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How I Write History…with Marc Leepson
An Interview with Marc Leepson (Guest Contributor) Wonders & Marvels: What is the earliest experience with writing that you remember? Marc Leepson: When I was in second grade, our teacher, Mrs....
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How I Write History…with Chet Van Duzer
An Interview with Chet Van Duzer (Guest Contributor) Wonders & Marvels: Can you tell us about your first experience in an archive? Chet Van Duzer: One of my most memorable early experiences was...
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How I Write History…with David Laskin
An Interview with David Laskin (Guest Contributor) Wonders & Marvels: What role did history play in your relationship with your family? David Laskin: Growing up, I always assumed history happened...
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Cabinet of Curiosities: There’s an App for That!
By April Stevens (W&M Managing Editor) Here at Wonders & Marvels, we are big supporters of the Digital Humanities (we are a blog after all!). It seems that every day people are coming up with...
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How I Write History…with Heather Webb
An Interview with Heather Webb (Guest Contributor) Wonders & Marvels: When did you know you wanted to be a writer? How did you decide on historical fiction? Heather Webb: I’ve carried books around...
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Ibn Who?
By Pamela Toler (Regular Contributor) Ibn Khaldun on the Tunisian 10 dinar note. Image courtesy of http://www.banknotes.it If you spend any time studying history in a serious way–whether in school...
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From Scholar to Archive Thief
By Lisa Moses Leff (Guest Contributor) I first heard of Zosa Szajkowski (1911-78) as a student of French Jewish history. Szajkowski is a founding father of the field, author of almost two hundred...
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Fighting the Legend of the “Lobotomobile”
by Jack El-Hai, Wonders & Marvels contributor I often receive emails from middle school and high school students working on projects about the history of lobotomy, a now obsolete but once...
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In condemnation of epigraphs
by Jack El-Hai, Wonders & Marvels contributor Leaf through the opening pages of a book of popular history, and there’s a good chance you’ll encounter an epigraph. Does anyone find value in them?...
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Looking for the Stranger
By Alice Kaplan (Guest Contributor) How did Camus come up with the name for Meursault, the hero of The Stranger ? His is one of the most famous names in modern literature, and one of the most...
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Ohio as Paradise during the French Revolution
By Benjamin Hoffmann (Guest Contributor) Every time I go to work, I cross the Scioto river. It’s a wide, long river in the state of Ohio, streaming on the western side of the city of Columbus. Driving...
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