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Tracie Hall, who is the first Black woman to head the American Library Association, has been named one of Time's 100 most influential people.
In Persuasion , mourning and renewal are not separate. Jane Austen (1775–1817) finished this novel during her own last illness and it has a quality of reflection all its own. Anne Elliot, living quietly in the country, has lost people she loves, and a chance at love, but as she moves once again into a broader world—a world of friendship, imagination, and of the wide seas toward the end of the Napoleonic Wars—life begins for her for a second time. This April, when we all will be living with losses, and, we hope, imagining entering the world again, come read the Austen novel in which, Vir...
The Untold Truth Of The Women Who Ruled Ancient Egypt By Sarah Crocker/Jan. 28, 2021 4:40 pm EDT When considering the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, who do you imagine? Probably a man, right? He's wearing a crown of some sort, sporting some nice eyeliner, and generally lording it over everyone as a god on Earth. But, what about the goddesses? Turns out, there were a fair number of women who ruled over ancient Egypt, from its very beginnings to the final dynastic pharaoh on the throne at the time of the Roman takeover. That may be in part because, compared to other societies at the time, ancient...