Linda Hirshman

Apr 10, 2024 | margaretsullivan.substack.com | Linda Hirshman |margaret sullivan

Linda Hirshman would have turned 80 this month. But that birthday was not to be. She died in late October, her life memorialized in a major New York Times obituary with this headline: Linda Hirshman, who challenged stay-at-home mothers, dies at 79. The sub-headline, aptly, called her a “feminist provocateur.”Linda’s cancer, once vanquished, had returned with a vengeance; and after many ups and downs, hopes raised and dashed, it became clear that this time it would be terminal.

Mar 15, 2023 | americanheritage.com | Bruce Watson |Linda Hirshman |Kai Bird |Shane Manson

Our classrooms are failing to pass down the essentials of what it means to be an American and citizen of the United States. Excerpted from The Bill Of Obligations: The Ten Habits Of Good Citizens This obligation draws inspiration from the Jewish festival of Passover. This annual holiday celebrates the liberation of the Jews some three thousand years ago from Pharaoh’s Egypt, where they had been enslaved.

Mar 14, 2023 | americanheritage.com | Bruce Watson |Linda Hirshman |Kai Bird |Shane Manson

Today’s budget wars would be unrecognizable to earlier generations of Americans. Charles S. Clark, a retired Washington journalist, updated this piece from his July 18, 2019, feature published in Government Executive. The recent author of “George Washington Parke Custis: A Rarefied Life in America’s First Family” he writes a weekly column for the Falls Church News-Press.

Mar 14, 2023 | americanheritage.com | Bruce Watson |Linda Hirshman |Kai Bird |Shane Manson

We noticed something curious last year. While every state had a historical society -- and most counties, cities and towns in the U.S.--  there was no national historical society. So we did something about it. On April 26, we created The National Historical Society, a new 501(c)3 incorporated in our Nation's Capital. The mission of the new Society is simple: to help millions of Americans learn more about our nation’s story.