Karen Carr

St. Germain des Pres was already standing in Heloise's time (Paris, 1000 AD) We used to tell Heloise and Abelard as a love story, but I hope now we are [...]

If you don't want to center your Women's History Month on famous and powerful women, these are some of Quatr.us 's articles on ordinary women's lives: https://quatr.us/china/women-early-china-swimming-foot-binding.htm https://quatr.us/west-asia/girls-young-women-west-asia.htm https://quatr.us/greeks/women-ancient-greece.htm https://quatr.us/people-2/women-ancient-rome-gender-power.htm https://quatr.us/islam/medieval-islamic-women.htm https://quatr.us/history/european-women-history-women.htm [...]

A view of the medieval towers of Akhlat, now in eastern Turkey Let's start off Women's History Month with Queen Tamta, an Armenian woman who ruled her hometown of Akhlat in the [...]

As we wrap up Black History Month and get ready for Women's history month, let's have a post on Black women's lives and accomplishments. You can read about the Old Kingdom Egyptian [...]

I'm finishing up a draft of the World History of Swimming book I'm working on, and it's due in less than a week, so I haven't got much time to write blog [...]

Happy Valentine's Day, with much love from me to all of you out there who visit this site and follow my posts! Check out the history of Valentine's Day here: it may [...]

In the years right before European slave-traders started to visit Africa in the 1400s AD, most of the people in Africa were living in large, powerful kingdoms, farming and trading with people [...]

Ancient Egyptian model of a brewery. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Two main points to make today: What people eat changes a lot over time, even in relatively isolated parts [...]

You might get the impression from colonialist accounts that people in Africa were all living in mud huts when the Europeans started to enslave them in the 1400s. But the world's first [...]

Standing stones at Nabta Playa (modern Sudan), ca. 6000 BC There are plenty of ideas and inventions that clearly come from sub-Saharan Africa, like astronomical stone circles, domesticated donkeys and [...]