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Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport that Changed Their Lives Forever, by Kareem Rosser resonates with every athlete and seeker who has been gatekept from participating in sports, arts, or educational opportunities due to social and monetary barriers.
Two brothers from West Philly are allowed the opportunity to relate to horses, and use their talent and determination to fight their way into college and a most unlikely sport: polo.
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“They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Today those words appear almost everywhere—on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, plaques, greeting cards, and more. But what do they really mean? In this engrossing volume, Laurel Ulrich goes far beyond the slogan she inadvertently created and explores what it means to make history.
Her volume ranges over centuries and cultures, from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who imagined a world in which women achieved power and influence, to the writings of nineteenth-century suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and twentieth-century novelist Virginia Woolf. Ulrich updates de Pizan’s Amazons with stories about women warriors from other times and places. She contrasts Woolf’s imagined story about Shakespeare’s sister with biographies of actual women who were Shakespeare’s contemporaries. She turns Stanton’s encounter with a runaway slave upside down, asking how the story would change if the slave rather than the white suffragist were at the center. She uses daybook illustrations to look at women who weren’t trying to make history, but did. Throughout, she shows how the feminist wave of the 1970s created a generation of historians who by challenging traditional accounts of both men’s and women’s histories stimulated more vibrant and better-documented accounts of the past.
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History celebrates a renaissance in history inspired by amateurs, activists, and professional historians. It is a tribute to history and to those who make it.
Published 1903 in Spokane, Washington, this vast book (1,238 pages) looks at the settlers and the people native to the land. It includes numerous maps and biographical sketches of prominent citizens. An Illustrated History of North Idaho can be found in the Center for Regional History’s Rare Book Case and can be viewed by appointment.
Jeanne Rodger Lane Center for Regional History, Rare Book Collection, RHD 979.6 ILL.
These are the Goggles by GB Ski Equipment, manufactured by Gerber Bros. Seattle U.S.A. No.295 Viso-Goggles, circa 1940s-1960s. Package says $1.00 for one pair. Gerber Brothers was owned by Sidney Gerber, who was frequent visitor to Sun Valley for a number of years along with his wife Anne.
Bob McGuire Collection, Regional History Museum, 2002.32.01.
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The Gates of Europe (2015) by Serhii Plokhy (Harvard) explores the deep history of the Ukraine at the crossroads in Europe, and its fight for territorial integrity and political independence. This book provides solid grounding for the conditions driving the erupting chaos today.
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A Mulan-inspired fantasy about a talented tailor who can’t realize her dream, because she is female. Posing as a boy, she sets out on an impossible quest to sew three magic dresses from the sun, the moon, and stars. This book is a Young Reader’s Choice Nominee. Voting opens March 15th.
