How Jennie Hodgers, an Irish immigrant to the U.S., became Union soldier Albert D.J. Cashier:
In Civil War, woman fought like a man for freedom
The book They Fought Like Demons by Deanne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook tells the stories of Hodgers/Cashier and other female Civil War soldiers.
Prominent women are forever being compared to Princess Diana and/or Marie Antoinette, and right now it’s apparently U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama’s Diana moment.
Interesting article about a slave named Oney Judge, who ran away from the household of the first U.S. president, George Washington: A slave’s defiance
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"In order to understand what’s going on with Hillary Clinton, it helps to recall a woman who lost her head and therefore her life in 1793: Marie Antoinette," says Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen. (Hillary Rodham Clinton is a United States senator and the wife of former U.S. president Bill Clinton.)
When asked about this article, Senator Clinton observed, "That was an interesting article because, of course, poor old Marie Antoinette lost her head… and some of the reason[s] are that she was accused of things she never did or never said."
You can hear more of Hillary Clinton’s comments here. Or, if that link doesn’t work, read a summary here.
More about Marie Antoinette’s life and death:
Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, and the French Revolution
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