May 14, 2013. The end of my first year in a history Ph.D. program. I did my undergraduate years in a gloriously “traditional” manner. Eighteen, freshman year, assigned to a dorm with a roommate–luckily we fell into the lifelong friends category. We had another…
I presented my paper, “The Norma Rae Phenomenon: Southern Textile Workers as Raw Material for a Pop Culture Icon,” on November 23 in Madison, Wisconsin. It traces the extraction of the simplified Norma Rae icon from the substantive network of collective resistance to the exploitation in…
David McCullough is the grandpa of popular American history. He is mild-mannered, charming, and confident but not self-important. He lacks the hard arrogance of Gore Vidal, the practiced moxie of Stephen Ambrose, the manic striving of Doris Kearns Goodwin, or the nerdy self-congratulation of…
2012 UConn History Department: Ph.D. program, Outstanding Scholars Program In September 2012, I joined the Ph.D. program in the History Department at UConn-Storrs where I focused on 20th-century U.S. women’s history. I received a three-year Outstanding Scholars Program fellowship.
2012 “Asking the Authors” Interview: ELCAT The local community access channel requested an interview to discuss my writing, education, and career. Alexi Cohan is a high school student developing her own skills as a journalist.
– Do not by a house that’s been empty for more than three months: mice, dried-out pipes, cracked washers, tree roots, maple seedlings, burrowing bugs, and nesting birds. Nature is resilient. It’s the stability of our human society that’s an illusion, human structures that teeter on the…