Lost their thighs???

A post from May about Metta Victor. I read one of her books recently (Nat Wolfe, link in the article), and while there was a lot about it that was very dated (casual racism against Native Americans, for sure), one of the plotlines was interesting in that... (1/3) ko-fi.com/post/Crime-F...

The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: A Guidebook for Surviving the Afterlife

ko-fi.com/post/Preside... Exploration of The White House Cookbook and its adaptation, The Presidents' Cookbook. Lots of interesting recipes and scads of trivia!

'Bird on Cherry Branch' - Utagawa Hiroshige. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

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New Essay: Matthew Henson's Expedition to the North Pole. For Black History Month. History likes to say Robert Peary was the first American to reach the North Pole--but was he really? (And was it the North Pole at all?)

African American Poets for Black History Month. #poetry #BlackHistoryMonth (from April 2025) https://ko-fi.com/post/African-American-Poets-Part-I-U7U51D73ZH

“The Object of that incomprehensible Being, which alone and in himself comprehends and constitutes supreme Perfection.” One of the 32 stunning illustrative plates to feature in Thomas Wright's An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750): publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

some recs for Black history month! (and always!)

A new feed for Reading in Public! Adventures in the Public Domain, with a slant toward lesser-known works and marginalized authors. I also l love historical shenanigans.

Exploring lesser-known works in the public domain, with a slant toward authors from marginalized groups. Also other things public-domainy that catch my interest. I also post on ko-fi.com/knightswriter