Our Lives

<p><span style=font-size: small;>A series of stories that provide a picture of struggle and strength in many different societies.<br /></span><span style=font-size: small;><br />What makes history live? Stories about individuals who take us to places we have not been.<br /></span><span style=font-size: small;><br />Learning about the lives of girls and women over a lengthy period of time will stimulate discussion about those lives as well as their counterparts today.<br /></span><span style=font-size: small;><br />Each life lived has a story we can learn from. In <em>Our Lives: Girls’ and Women’s Stories Across Two Millennia</em> editor John Connolly offers ten short fiction stories penned by<em> </em>young writers that provide pictures of the struggle and strength of girls and women<em> </em>in many different societies.<br /></span><span style=font-size: small;><br />These stories may take us to unfamiliar places as the girls’ and women’s images come to life through original sketches. “Hoski” tells the story of a young Navajo girl living in the period around 1400 in what is now the United States; it explores her relationship with her grandmother and explains why she needs to be strong. “Gaia Valeria” introduces Gaia a fifteen-year-old from a wealthy family living in Pompeii during the Roman Empire and compares her life with that of her slave. “The Diary of Zhang Lihua” shares excerpts from the diary of a young woman living in northern China near the end of the sixth century as she describes her family and political changes taking place at that time.<br /><br /></span></p> <p>Making history come alive <em>Our Lives </em>is intended to stimulate discussion about the lives of girls and women and their struggles and triumphs of yesteryear and what it means to today’s society.</p> <p> </p>