BA Duke University
MAT Johns Hopkins University
PhD Johns Hopkins University
Professor Emerita, Dominican University of California
Service
Founding Board Member, International Big History Association
Associate Editor, Origins: The Bulletin of the International Big History Association
Associate Editor, The Journal of Big History
Published Works
- Big History, Small World: From the Big Bang to You. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2016.
- Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present. New York: New Press, 2007.
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Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Teachers College Press, 2002.
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Connecting with the Past: History Workshop in Middle and High Schools, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994.
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New Faces in Our Schools: Student-Generated Solutions to Ethnic Conflict, with Karen Jorgensen, San Francisco: Zellerbach Family Fund, 1992.
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Like It Was: A Complete Guide to Writing Oral History, New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1988.
- Ready From Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement, Navarro, CA: Wild Trees Press, 1986, American Book Award, 1987, re-issued by Africa World Press, 1990.
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Alexander Meiklejohn: Teacher of Freedom, Berkeley, CA: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, 1981.
