ACTIVHISTorian
Arizona Humanities AZ Speaks: The History Matters: Yours Too!
Happy to announce that AZ Speaks, sponsored by Arizona Humanities, will offer a presentation delivered by Dr. Pamela Stewart,...
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ACTIVHISTorian
- Aug 22
- 3 min
"Activate" a family's history-and legacy
In a recent article about Caroline Kennedy in her role as U.S. Ambassador to Australia, President John F. Kennedy's daughter was quoted...
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ACTIVHISTorian
- Aug 14
- 3 min
Ghosting History: Looking for Bélizaire (1822-?)
We live in an era when some prefer the history they think they know and desperately want to believe, to the history that is factual....
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ACTIVHISTorian
- Jul 6
- 4 min
Silencing Humanists: Oppressive Regimes Know Their Targets
Among the first to be arrested, imprisoned, even tortured and murdered when an oppressive regime comes to power are humanists, the...
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ACTIVHISTorian
- Jul 6
- 6 min
"Consistent with gender at birth"? Let's push back against conflating sex categories with gender
At some point the terms SEX and GENDER became synonymous. But they did not start out that way and we need to decouple them, especially as...
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ACTIVHISTorian
- Jun 7
- 8 min
Controlling Women's Bodies is Part and Parcel of 'Healthcare Capitalism'
In a recent New York Times opinion piece, "Getting a Birth Control Pill Should Be Easy" (May 24, 2023), physician Eric Reinhart engages...
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ACTIVHISTorian
- May 20
- 6 min
Is It 'New' When Middle-Class White Women Do It?
We need reminding that all too often, "news" means something different is happening among more-or-less privileged white people, in this...
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ACTIVHISTorian
- Nov 23, 2022
- 4 min
A Woman is Dead But the Perpetrator is Not a Danger??
UPDATED: 1/3/23: FINALLY: A suspect arrested. For a few insights on related issues, see Julia Cooke's guest essay in the New York Times...
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ACTIVHISTorian
- Nov 8, 2022
- 4 min
What If 'Female' Bodies Were the Default?
Try this: In your mind's eye, imagine what a naked Human looks like. Are you imagining what Human looks like without sex or even racial...
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ACTIVHISTorian
- Oct 17, 2022
- 3 min
BLOG-ACTIVHIST
Welcome to the world of ACTIVHISTorians: using history as a tool to solve today's problems. ACTIVHISTorian, Pamela Stewart, earned...
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