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LETTERS FROM CAROLINE

Category: People History Forgot

The ones who deserved a longer chapter

The Names Women Left Behind: What Surnames Reveal About the Stories We Almost Lost

Surnames that get lost

Nancy Polk Hall on what surnames — especially the ones women gave up — reveal about forgotten histories, and why she researches names as obsessively as she researches events.

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Nancy Polk Hall

Author, historian, world-traveler, storyteller. Uncovering the histories that deserve to be told.

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LETTERS FROM CAROLINE