by Mari K Eder | Sep 3, 2024 | Newsletters
Watching so much of the Olympics in August was a wonderful way to celebrate the ways in which people find and groom their specialized and particular skills to the very height of competitive excellence. Seeing how hard world-class athletes work to maintain their... 
by Mari K Eder | Aug 6, 2024 | Newsletters
I’ve been rereading some of the information on the incredible Mary Barraco and I continue to learn more about her remarkable penchant for giving back in her later years. While she fought with the resistance in Belgium during World War II, was imprisoned and tortured,... 
by Mari K Eder | Jul 2, 2024 | Newsletters
Schools tend to teach history in Blocks—the Great Depression, the Revolutionary War era, The Gilded Age, and more. These artificial boundaries distract us from one of the greatest lessons we can possibly learn from history—the trends, tides of change, and how evolving... 
by Mari K Eder | Jul 24, 2023 | Op-Eds and Commentary
As published in the July – August 2023 edition of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution National Defender. A recent military magazine article on WWII journalists neglected to mention any women correspondents aside from Martha Gellhorn, and... 
by Mari K Eder | Mar 8, 2022 | Newsletters
I’m often asked if there are stories about women in WWII that I wasn’t able to include in my book, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line. Of course, there are many more women I would have liked to include. Some I couldn’t find enough material on to flesh out a complete...