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		<title>The busy Posthumous life of Genevieve</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/03/the-busy-posthumous-life-of-geneviev.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Church History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Powell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saint Genevieve of Nanterre]]></category>

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By David Powell
In November 1793, the oldest victim of the Reign of Terror went quietly to her fate.  She had already been dead for nearly thirteen centuries, but that did not mollify the revolutionaries who had exhumed Saint Genevieve of Nanterre from the crypt beneath the Parisian abbey that bore her name.
Her ornate, early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GIVEAWAY:  The Queen&#8217;s Governess</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anne Boleyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen Elizabeth I]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Queen's Governess]]></category>

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“Anne Boleyn gave me life, but Kat Ashley gave me love,” said Elizabeth I.
Everyone knows who Anne Boleyn was, but who was Kat Ashley? In The Queen’s Governess by Karen Harper, we read Kat’s “memoir” of the four decades she spent in the royal courts of the Tudor monarchs. How does this strong and intelligent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Books in the Classroom</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/03/historical-books-in-the-classroom.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[History for Young Adults]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young adults]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History in the Classroom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melissa L]]></category>

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By Melissa L.
Over the past twenty years or so, history and historical fiction books have been used more and more as part of the school curriculum. In many of the books I’ve reviewed lately, I’ve noticed an abundance of features that are clearly intended to make the titles classroom-friendly. Bibliographies or “further reading” sections give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Confederate Saved by Talking Parrot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cultural History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History and War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race and Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All Other Nights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confederate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confederate 2 dollar bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dara Horn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jewish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judah Benjamin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parrot]]></category>

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By Dara Horn
The old American South ranks high on the historical list of institutionally bigoted societies &#8211; which is why most people are surprised to learn that the Confederacy’s Secretary of State, whose face was even featured on the Confederate two-dollar bill, was a Jewish man named Judah Benjamin. But what is even more astonishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easier not to know?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Famous Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History NF authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race and Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C. S. Manegold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Winthrop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[south]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ten Hills Farm]]></category>

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By C. S. Manegold
ALMOST HALF a century ago, Martin Luther King Jr. captured a problem that still plagues us today. Cautioning his flock against the complacent embrace of incomplete knowledge, he warned: “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.’’
I have thought of those words often in the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grimm Criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fairy Tales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Famous Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History and Art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Professor Donald Haase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Brothers Grimm]]></category>

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By Donald Haase
When W. H. Auden claimed that Grimms’ fairy tales “rank next to the Bible in importance,” he may have been right—at least in 1944. Auden could not have anticipated, however, the criticism that Grimms’ tales were to undergo during the last half of the twentieth century, beginning already in 1947, when the brothers’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is it with Wars?: Overrepresented Areas in Historical Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History for Young Adults]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young adults]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melissa L]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sniper]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/?p=4315</guid>
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By Melissa L.
While many areas are underrepresented in historical fiction, there are also some that are way overrepresented. That’s not to say that books about these topics don’t need to be on the market, but they take up an incredibly large share.
In historical fiction about the United States, the overrepresented areas can be expressed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of a Starlet</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/02/death-of-a-starlet.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Famous Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love and Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine, Health and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bichloride of mercury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Blum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Pickford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olive Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Poisoner's Handbook]]></category>

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By Deborah Blum
In the year of her death, starlet Olive Thomas, was a favorite of Hollywood gossip magazines. Married to Jack Pickford – younger brother of screen star Mary Pickford, she and her husband had a reputation for intense partying and intense quarreling, usually over his numerous side affairs – he’d developed syphilis as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Wren and the Bees</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/02/christopher-wren-and-bees.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History NF authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History and Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beehives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beekeepers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Wren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Kritsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skeps]]></category>

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By Gene Kritsky
Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the architect who designed St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, is also known for designing one of the first wooden box bee hives.  Unlike the typical box hive we use today, Wren’s hive was octagonal.
In Wren’s day, beekeepers preferred to use the skep hive, an inverted basket that was fashioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GIVEAWAY:  Alcestis</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/02/giveaway-alcestis.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Giveaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcestis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katharine Beutner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mycenaean]]></category>

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