Diane Burley

Dog birthday parties, themed costumes, and a little Gilded Age history. How Max and his furry friends reminded me that community can come from the most unexpected places.

The Great Carpet Strike of 1884–85 linked workers across cities and trades, juxtaposed with a modern local planning fight to illustrate collective action.

Lucy Stone and Leonora Barry Lake show us that progress is real. And also that there is much work left to do.

I knew my grandfather for 25 years. I knew his father, Roy, far less, but it was through Roy that I learned what made Poppa different.

More than just the author of Peter Rabbit, she was a scientist, conservationist, illustrator, and creator of her own cipher -- who bet on herself.

Humor essay on fall equinox: shorter days, rutting deer, migrating caribou, returning moose, confused hydrangeas and chickadees with expanding memories.

What learning to dance has taught me about writing, practice, and vulnerability

What is serendipity? A $100 bill, Caroline Herschel and Leonora Kearney Barry lead me to believe, sometimes chance answers a longing already waiting inside us.

Essay that braids two popes, a labor organizer, nurses, and a linesman to remind us that Labor Day is about dignity, safety, and the power of organizing.

When a Sicilian widow sent her sixteen-year-old son to America, she wasn't simply sending him to find work. He became a link in two chains: the migration of people and the movement of food.

We used to learn how to use the machine. Now the machine expects us to learn its language.

Channeling Ionesco, I tackle the Sídhe, spelling reform, a warning about hawthorn trees, and scéalaí. Try to keep up.

I went looking for the Irish creation story — and found ringforts, hedge schools, hawthorn trees, and a bull whose fate could have ended two different ways.

She was never on the edge of the story. I was. A dance class, a Christmas party, and the woman I wish I had known sooner.

I sat with Barbara Tien of ProjectKin to talk about a way to stay faithful to the record -- and still give voice to those who didn't have any.

Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey offers a unique lens for understanding labor activist Leonora Kearney Barry – and how each restores people to history.

A look at how a person's voice can outlast a photograph, a transcript, and even trigger a memory.

A special look at a few of my female ancestors – and the roles they played during the Revolutionary War.

A recording from Diane Burley and Adrienne J Clarke's live video

In reviewing fond memories of the Fourth of July, Norwood's Firemen's Races, and Family, author discovers that patriotism is about not just country but community.