On Teaching
How we went North…
When Charlie Hardy suggested I collaborate with him on a class using old oral history interviews he recorded with African Americans who had migrated to Philadelphia during the Great Migration, I was … [Read More]
On Quilts
Doug Tompkins, Quilt Collector
Sadly, I never met Doug Tompkins. By the time I was deep into my research into Amish quilts, he was deep into ecology, living in a remote area of Chile, where by 1995 he was one of the largest private … [Read More]
On Personal History
Inaugurations
I was snuggled up under an afghan, home sick from school. That happened sometimes when I was in kindergarten—my daughter’s age now—when I just didn’t want to go, my stomach would … [Read More]