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Why Women’s History Matters: My Interview for History in the Margins
Posted by VanyaB1877 in The Book on 5 March 2016
March is Women’s History Month. Here it is my contribution to the topic. Pamela Toler, a fellow historian, interviewed me for her blog History in the Margins. Pamela is the author of “Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War“, the book about the real women working at Mansion House, a hospital [...]
Marie von Clausewitz’s Diary from 1813
Posted by VanyaB1877 in Research on 1 February 2016
Marie von Clausewitz’s diary from the fall campaign in 1813 is now accessible online. You can see the original pages written between August 17 and November 30, 1813 on Münster University and State Library’s online page. I have deciphered and annotated the diary. For those of you speaking German, you can follow the link here. If you [...]
Carl von Clausewitz’s Letter to August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Posted by VanyaB1877 in Research on 22 November 2015
Recently I wrote an article for WarOnTheRocks.com about a letter Carl von Clausewitz wrote to the poet August Wilhelm von Schlegel in 1808. It has been rediscovered in the vaults of the Saxon State Archives. The letter points to a problem with Clausewitz’s biography: despite his eminent place in Western military thought, no comprehensive collected edition [...]
My Own Private Soave
Posted by VanyaB1877 in Travel on 10 February 2015
Dear readers, I have fallen off the face of the earth in the last eight night months but I have very good reasons for it. We moved to Italy. Then while still staying in a hotel and looking for a place to live, Oxford University Press-USA offered me a book deal. This significantly speeded up the [...]
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