Coming of Age in the 1950s All Over Again

I’ve been reflecting here on coming of age in the 1950s, and on some of the extraordinary changes I’ve observed Continue reading →

P.S. We’re All Nasty Now

I posted “Generations“ in May 2015, when Bernie Sanders was a gleam in the eye of the Left, Jeb Bush Continue reading →

#Tech #Support

During my long-ago childhood I could never have imagined that a phone—a heavy, stable black object—would become a traveling computer Continue reading →

P.S. Mining in Colorado, 1951

Memories elicit memories, in listeners and readers as well as in the one who tells the stories or writes them Continue reading →

Colorado Legacy: My “Subject Minerals”

In a strange turn of events, I recently received more than $5,000 as a “signing bonus” for leasing to an Continue reading →

On Food: From Tuna Fish Casserole to the Age of Arugula

I have long believed that the opening salvo of second-wave feminism was fired in 1960, several years ahead of its Continue reading →

Finding Claudia Jones

When I retired from academic life in the early 2000s I turned my attention from the Middle Ages to the Continue reading →

P.S. Not So Silent

Memory can take you in unexpected directions. I wrote recently about student summer travel in the 1950s, and after the Continue reading →