I'm Adding a New Category - Radicals, Renegades, and Rebels!

Coming in December (because I’ve already gotten started on all my November content), I’m adding a new category of content. Radicals, Renegades, and Rebels is a topic that has captivated me for a long time. I had thought to do a podcast on the subject, and I’m reasonably sure there are enough radicals, renegades throughout history to have kept the hopper full for many years. I don’t have time to do a podcast, and I’m not willing to let go of the idea. Since I can’t, I’ll add it to my writing!

When we study history, we learn something. Even studying the lives of people who have done very bad things can provide us lessons of value. Maybe all we learn is that they did very bad things. But maybe we learn to avoid the things that put them in the position where they could do very bad things. Radicals, renegades, and rebels can teach us something – we’re just never sure what we’ll find in them.

I’ll showcase virtue more often than vice, to be sure. I love an underdog, a rags-to-riches story, and I love someone who looked at society’s ridiculous rules and thumbed her nose at them. That’s essentially what we’ll find in Radicals, Renegades, and Rebels. But there will be stories, as well, of people who we’re going to love to hate, because we need to hear those stories as well.

Here’s what I have on deck to start off:

Charlotte Parkhurst, legendary stagecoach driver of the old west
Mary Ellen Pleasant, “Mother of Civil Rights in California
Edmund Ruffin, one of the “Fire Eaters”
Biddy Mason, nurse and real estate entrepreneur

I’m already excited about Radicals, Renegades, and Rebels, and I hope you enjoy reading their stories as much as I am going to enjoy telling them.

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