{"id":389,"date":"2026-07-28T15:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beverly-barnes.client-demo-websites.com\/?page_id=389"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:10:10","slug":"about-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beverly-barnes.client-demo-websites.com\/index.php\/about-book\/","title":{"rendered":"About Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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History often tells us who won. It does not always tell us who was silenced. Ribs Off an Old Tree<\/em> examines the lives of twelve women whose influence reached across kingdoms, faiths, families, revolutions, and generations.<\/p>

Some were queens. Some were mothers. Some were warriors, reformers, survivors, or spiritual figures. Many were judged by records written long after their deaths, often by men who viewed female authority as dangerous. Beverly Barnes McKeever returns to their stories with a searching question: What happens when we look beyond the labels history gave them?<\/p>

The book explores women including Mary Magdalene, Jezebel of Tyre, Arsinoe IV, Anna Enygeus, Mary of Nazareth, Boudicca, Saint Clotilde, Saint Radegund, Saint Margaret Atheling, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Susanna White Winslow, and Abigail Adams.<\/p>

Each chapter considers the world a woman lived in, the limits placed upon her, the choices available to her, and the forces that shaped how she was remembered.<\/p>

These women are presented as complex people who governed, resisted, believed, failed, protected, sacrificed, grieved, and survived. Their stories reveal how power controls memory and how easily a woman\u2019s identity can be reduced to a warning, a stereotype, or a footnote.<\/p>

At the center of the book is a clear belief: Women did not stand outside history. They built it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This Book Is for Readers Who:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Value women\u2019s history and genealogy.<\/li>\n
  • Question familiar historical narratives.<\/li>\n
  • Enjoy stories of queens, reformers, warriors, and survivors.<\/li>\n
  • Want to understand how gender shaped law, religion, leadership, and memory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Forgotten lives deserve more than a footnote. They deserve serious attention.<\/p>\n

    Why Readers Will Remember It<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Ribs Off an Old Tree<\/em> connects the struggles of historical women with questions that remain urgent today.<\/p>\n

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    • Who is allowed to lead?<\/li>\n
    • Who controls the narrative?<\/li>\n
    • Why are powerful women judged differently?<\/li>\n
    • What is lost when women disappear from the record?<\/li>\n
    • And what becomes possible when their names are restored?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      This book does not ask readers to accept history without question. It asks them to look again.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      RIBS OFF AN OLD TREE RECLAIMING SOVEREIGNTY About the Book RIBS OFF AN OLD TREE History often tells us who won. It does not always tell us who was silenced. Ribs Off an Old Tree examines the lives of twelve women whose influence reached across kingdoms, faiths, families, revolutions, and generations. Some were queens. Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-389","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beverly-barnes.client-demo-websites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beverly-barnes.client-demo-websites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beverly-barnes.client-demo-websites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beverly-barnes.client-demo-websites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beverly-barnes.client-demo-websites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/beverly-barnes.client-demo-websites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/beverly-barnes.client-demo-websites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beverly-barnes.client-demo-websites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}