Amanda Foreman
Columnist at The Wall Street Journal
Contributor at CBS
WSJ Columnist. CBS Contributor. Co-Founder House of SpeakEasy. Books: Georgiana, A World on Fire, The World Made by Women (2025) TV: The Ascent of Woman.
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Dec 29, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Amanda Foreman
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Oct 28, 2024 |
dramandaforeman.com | Amanda Foreman
The Mesopotamians were among the first known to grasp the usefulness of the charge account. The extensive trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley made regular shipments of gold highly impracticable. Instead, traders used seals and clay tablets to keep running tallies for settlement at a future date. Greek and Roman travelers relied on letters of creditworthiness from their personal banks. But this practice died out during the Dark Ages.
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Oct 2, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Amanda Foreman
In early 1965, the death of Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel, married to three of the most brilliant men of early 20th-century Europe and the lover of several others, inspired Tom Lehrer to compose a spoof paean to her wondrous assets. “Alma, Tell us, All modern women are jealous,” he sang with a knowing chuckle. The song tickled upper-crust New Yorkers; they had an English version of Alma living among them in the form of The Hon Pamela Churchill-Hayward.
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Oct 2, 2024 |
theringer.com | Amanda Foreman |Greg Grunberg |Juliet Litman
WB With Felicity graduated from college and back in the present day, it’s time to say goodbye to the plucky freshman with curly hair. Juliet, Mandy, and Greg discuss the final two episodes of Felicity, talking about Greg’s real-life speech to the cast at the wedding and the absence of Sarah McLachlan in that final scene, where they think Felicity and Ben’s relationship would stand today, and more memories from filming the final episodes of the show.
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Sep 25, 2024 |
theringer.com | Amanda Foreman |Greg Grunberg |Juliet Litman
WB Just when the cast and crew of Felicity thought the show was over, they were asked by the network to do five more episodes. So, Felicity and her friends traveled back in time and the audience got to see what would have happened if Felicity chose Ben over Noel.
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The Untold Story of How Israel Failed on October 7 by Jonathan Foreman, author of the All Parliamentary Report on October 7. https://t.co/XOQeVNvZB7 via @commentary
The Untold Story of How Israel Failed on October 7 https://t.co/XOQeVNvZB7 via @commentary
Remembering Elsa Honig Fine (1930–2025), a pioneering art historian whose scholarship and advocacy advanced recognition of Black & women artists. Her work challenged traditional art history and expanded the canon, inspiring future generations. https://t.co/TenFLUw35R