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Author: Victoria Martínez

Historian and author.
November 8, 2025November 8, 2025 Victoria Martínez

Commentary on “The Jewish Pedlar: An Untold Criminal History” by Tony Kushner

September 20, 2025 Victoria Martínez

The Legacy of Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth: Craftivism in History

August 10, 2024August 10, 2024 Victoria Martínez

Jadwiga Simon-Pietkiewicz: Reviving Forgotten Women Artists

May 10, 2024 Victoria Martínez

What Women Want: A Review of “Political Women” by Maggie Andrews

April 5, 2024 Victoria Martínez

A History of Messy, Chaotic Stories

February 17, 2024February 17, 2024 Victoria Martínez

Helen Keller on Fake News and Social Blindness 

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023 Victoria Martínez

The Slow Death of the “Princess Qajar” Meme and How to (Maybe) Kill It Once and for All

March 25, 2019February 17, 2024 Victoria Martínez

The Mother of the Green Book Ignored by History

February 3, 2019February 3, 2019 Victoria Martínez

The New Tropes of Women’s History are as Damaging as the Old

January 17, 2019February 25, 2019 Victoria Martínez

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