MUMMIES? EXPOSED! TWO ACTIVITIES for OCTOBERRRR…..

My new book, MUMMIES EXPOSED!, debuted in May. Spring hardly seems like the season for talking mummies, but as I say in the book, “there’s always something new to learn about something old.” So why not dig into mummy study all the year around?”

Mummies! takes an in-depth look at human bodies that were preserved either with intent or by Mother Nature. I tell their stories of discovery—and, thanks in part to STEM research—at least a part of the stories of these dead themselves: ten children, women, and men across space and time, explaining why these people (like us) were mummified or how their bodies survived the process of decay. I’m pleased to note that my book garnered four starred reviews!

Meet Ida Wells-Barnett & Dress Up for Suffrage

This month we celebrate 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King led the March on Washington in pursuit of civil rights for African-Americans.

This year, the League of Women Voters celebrates the 100th anniversary of a much less-well-known event: the Woman's Suffrage March.  On March  3, 1913, thousands of women gathered on the streets of Washington DC to bring public attention to their own civil rights issue: the right to vote.