Author: Priscilla L. Buckley (Priscilla L. Buckley)

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Tyger, Tyger

To pick up Tales of the Big Game Hunters is to suffer instant culture shock. The book plunges us into a world in which animals are slaughtered for the ivory, the skins, the racks, and the wonderful dangerous pleasure of the chase and kill. The British imperium is at its height, white supremacy unquestioned by...

Collitchgirl: Working for United Press in the 40’s
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Collitchgirl: Working for United Press in the 40’s

To enter the job market in the middle of World War II was a heady experience. In the year or two following Pearl Harbor nearly ten million young men had donned uniforms, and employers were crying for help. The only large reservoir left to be tapped was women. Rosie the Riveter was born. For college...