“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.”
#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.
The historian, Vincent O'Malley, now has a newsletter called Unsettling: Aotearoa New Zealand History. You can subscribe to it, which I have done, but the reply I received indicated there was a paid subscription tier of $6 a month. Not sure if that's for all or only some posts. First one at least is freely available though at the link below, where you can also subscribe.
P.S. It's *not* on Substack.
https://buttondown.com/unsettling/archive/unsettling-nz-history/
The Texas Institute of Letters recognized Dylan Baddour's article, “Forgotten Keepers of the Rio Grande Delta,” as the best short nonfiction of 2024.
Congratulations Dylan! 
We are proud to have published this important story, and so many others you've contributed. https://www.texasobserver.org/forgotten-keepers-of-the-rio-grande-delta/
Female hoplite
Eduardo Guillén Tello
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The Navajo Code Talkers are the latest to be erased from official military history by the Republicans' racist "DEI" purge.
The article give a remarkable list of people tossed in the memory hole: many black veterans and units, even the regiment from "Glory"
A great shot of the cart that is located next to our garden gate!
"So our lives go on, rumble-jumble, like a carrier's cart over ruts and stones, thumping anyhow instead of running smoothly on new-mown sward like a cricket-ball."
Amaryllis at the Fair
Some historical parallels for the anti-intellectual witch hunts in the modern USA.
#Trump #history #USPolitics
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/doge-elon-musk-trump-government-cuts-money.html
“Then Go Back to Rahway, We are Going On”: A Forgotten Moment in the Women’s Suffrage Movement & the History of Rahway (Part One)
#WomensHistoryMonth #herstory #women #history
https://www.tapinto.net/towns/rahway/sections/rahway-in-history/articles/then-go-back-to-rahway-we-are-going-on-a-forgotten-moment-in-the-women-s-suffrage-movement-the-history-of-rahway-part-one?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fhistory
An effort to call a convention to amend the Constitution is focused on the national debt but could open the door to other changes — including making it legal for Trump to run for a third term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/constitutional-convention-congress-donald-trump-power?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
9 Facts About St. Patrick’s Day You Never Knew
What do you mean green was not the color of St. Patrick?!?!
Fascists Have No Drip, a video about fashion under Fascism (Italy brand) - by a drag artist in a stunning look, which dragged me in... But I stayed for the sources! 19 minutes.
Quotes: "The Italian Fascist Party didn't have to invent misogyny. The anti-feminist backlash in Italy was well underway before the fascists came to power."
"But as the previous quote suggests, Italian Fascism was a cult of male sexuality, one that wanted to ignore women as much as it wanted to subjugate them. When the Fascist Party did give attention to women, it was often to parade them as objects of propaganda."
I’ve been posting weekly reminders about Business As Usual every Monday morning for about two years now.
But you know what? I could legitimately have been doing it each week for the past 30 or 40 years! Because that’s how long the ‘elite’ rulers of our society have been fully aware of what they are doing and yet continued pushing non-stop in a destructive rapacious exploitative colonial capitalist frenzy — completely ignoring the science and dooming the rest of us to a disastrous ecological breakdown.
All in the name of profits.
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It's time for another week of BUSINESS AS USUAL, sponsored by Toyota, Comcast, and the U.S. military-industrial complex.
"Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying!
We've got this, everything's fine." 
Elon Musk Wanted the Cybertruck to Look Like “the Future.” But It Reminds Us of One Particular Past.
The story of the Casspir, which patrolled townships in South Africa when the Tesla CEO was a boy #Musk #cybertruck #southafrica @histodons #history
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/tesla-cybertruck-protests-vandalism-elon-musk.html#
FUR TRADE STORIES FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS:
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Salmon were very important to both the HBC men, and the First Nations on the upper Fraser River -- without a good run of salmon, people starved. https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/salmon-runs/
It comes from a loose coalition of #archivists & #librarians, who are standing athwart #history & yelling “Save!” They belong to organizations such as the #InternetArchive, which co-created a project called the End of Term Web Archive to back up the federal web in 2008; the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, or #edgi; & #libraries at major #universities such as #MIT & the University of #Michigan.
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Pit firing connects us to over 30,000 years of shared human artistry.
Once a year, I return to this ancient technique, shaping clay, and letting fire and smoke complete the story. Honoring the legacy of those before me, I’m reminded how art endures across time.
#art #history #archeology #pottery
And here's Louis Armstrong performing a station ID for the Voice of America.
https://www.insidevoa.com/a/2034645.html
‘unwell women’ is an important book that highlights what happens when the wellbeing and care of women is anchored in knowledge and practices developed under the male gaze for the male body. as such, it is relevant for every person with a body who identifies as female.
full review: https://idealistatheart.com/unwell-women-by-elinor-cleghorn/
Marian McPartland credited Conover with "He established the jazz radio tradition for many of us." and Art Farmer added "I did not realize how popular he was until I was playing...in Yugoslavia."
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/invisible-man-willis-conover-and-the-jazz-hour-by-karl-ackermann
