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Sallie's posts tagged ‘The Civil War’

Being Ladies

December 15th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Politics 1 Comment

Newspaper text of General Order 28

As we again face a form of invasion, of lies and distortions, not soldiers, will we again be crippled by our adherence to older forms of “correct behavior”?

In Women, Politics Drew Gilpin Faust The Civil War

Why Are Some Women Conservatives

September 25th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Writing Leave a Comment

Photo of woman wearing t-shirt that says "I'm a Trump Girl Get Over It!"

I’ve been thinking a lot about the reasons why some women may vote for the felon…

In Writing The Civil War Donald Trump Drew Gilpin Faust

Next Year in Jerusalem

April 14th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 1 Comment

Book cover for This Republic of Suffering

Obsessions always interest me having hosted several of them with various results but I doubt that any of mine have shared the intensity with which Jews at the conclusion of Passover all over the world shout, “Next year in Jerusalem!” the dynamite that powers the unending war to erase Palestine.

In Writing The Civil War Israel Drew Gilpin Faust

Sallie’s Two Fans — The Blue Box: Three Lives In Letters

July 11th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Writing, My Family 2 Comments

Sallie Watson Montague

Now that my next book, my thirteenth or fourteenth—I’ve lost track—is only a month away from publication by Sarabande Books, I’m thinking of the three women whose lives my book attempts to encompass: my great-grandmother, my grandmother and my mother.

In Writing, My Family The Blue Box Sarabande Books Richmond The Civil War Anne Hollander

And The Good News Is…

June 15th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Writing 6 Comments

The Blue Box - Sallie Bingham

The first review of my next book, “The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters”, is just in from the prestigious Kirkus Reviews from which many libraries order.

In Women, Writing Women Writing Women's Lives Virginia Morgan Library Carter Burden Kirkus Reviews Tony Morrison The Civil War Sylvia Plath Reconstruction Zora Neal Hurston Prohibition J. D. Salinger World War Two Norman Mailer The Blue Box women's education Edith Wharton Henry James Suffrage Willa Cather emancipation Richmond

After Twenty-Five Years: Reflecting on the Origins of the Sallie Bingham Archive for Women’s Papers

March 27th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Philanthropy 8 Comments

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It is not only the personal that our papers record but the way the personal becomes political, even for women who may never recognize the connection.

In Women, Philanthropy The Southern Lady Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture Jean o"barr Bob Byrd The Civil War Duke University Mary Oliver The American Voice Anne Firor Scott

 

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Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.
On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

February 11th, 2024
I think memoir writing is a much more serious task than it's often considered to be. It's not informal, it's not casual. It really is the writing of

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
Taken by the Shawnee Reading

Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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