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Early Modern Diplomacy

A few weeks ago one of editors @LenaOetzel visited Versailles for the first time. Listening to the audioguide she felt the strong need to talk about #earlymodern female diplomatic/political actors and how they are represented in popular culture (or at least in this audioguide...).
True to the motto that every month is #WomensHistoryMonth, here is a thread about the women of Versailles - or at least two of them. (1/7)

#emdiplomacy #emdiplomats #Versailles #earlymodern
#France #EarlyModernEurope
@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

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Common Sparrow

Today's final book recommendation for Women's History Month is "Dorothea Lange: A Photographer’s Life" by Milton Meltzer (1978).

Dorothea Lange is widely recognized as one of the great documentary photographers. Her iconic photographs of migrant workers in the 1930's, and interned Japanese-Americans in the 1940's, have been seen by millions of people. Just one of her photos, "Migrant Mother", is one of the best-known images of the 20th century.

This book introduces us to the woman behind the photographs. Raised by a single mother after her father abandoned the family, she contracted polio as a child, and walked with a limp for the rest of her life. She decided in her late teens that she wanted to be a photographer, before she even owned a camera. In the 1920's, she moved to California, where she made a living as a portrait photographer.

In 1933, Lange was employed by the New Deal to document in pictures the situation of migrant workers during the Great Depression. This changed the trajectory of her career, as she discovered her calling to documentary photography.

She went on to photograph migrant workers on the roads, Japanese-Americans in internment camps, and sharecroppers in the south. Until her death in 1965, she remained an influence in the world of documentary photography, with numerous later photographers citing her as an early inspiration.

Link to book:
press.syr.edu/supressbooks/133

press.syr.eduDorothea Lange – Syracuse University Press
#WomensHistoryMonth#BookRecommendations
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DoomsdaysCW

#WMPG, #CommunitySupportedRadio, needs your HELP! If you can, please donate to their #Begathon! WMPG broadcasts #DemocracyNow every weekday, and has some great volunteer DJs who play a variety of music (like #DJShaxx) -- and emphasize #BlackHistoryMonth, #WomensHistoryMonth, #Pride, and more! They even have #Caribbean and #Latin shows! And, of course, lots of community issues and commentary! Support Independent Radio!

FMI:
wmpg.org/begathon-21st-march-a

To donate:
Call 207 874-3000, or visit givecampus.com/campaigns/52763
#WMPGFM #CollegeRadio #CommunityRadio #MaineRadio #Maine #Diversity

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BlueBeachSong™

On the last day of #WomensHistoryMonth, I'm sharing a poem for all the women we are and were and will be. -M.

🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼

i have been a thousand different women
by Emory Hall

make peace
with all the women
you once were.

lay flowers
at their feet.

offer them incense
and honey
and forgiveness.

honor them
and give them
your silence.

listen.

bless them
and let them be.

for they are the bones
of the temple
you sit in now.

for they are
the rivers
of wisdom
leading you toward
the sea.

Flipboard Culture Desk

Did you get the sense that Women's History Month was a bit of a damp squib this year, with fewer people writing about and discussing the annual observance, which started in 1987? @19thnews discusses why that might have been the case: Trump's anti-DEI moves have killed or maimed some efforts to celebrate women's achievements, from an Ohio conference to Defense Department web pages.

flip.it/.HKAIr
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #DEI #History @histodons #DiversityEquityInclusion #TrumpAdministration

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