It was 1958. I stood before three examiners from a national fellowship foundation. I was a college senior. They represented a foundation established to support graduate students committed to college teaching. I supposed we would discuss my love of history, the particular field I hoped to study, the graduate schools I’d applied to. Wrong. They wanted to talk about my plans for (...)
November 30, 1999
Books
A Success Story
When Everything ChangedThe Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the PresentGail CollinsLittle, Brown, $27.99, 480 pp.
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