Virginia Sapiro

For Mary Wollstonecraft’s birthday, my little piece on our almost 50 year history together,  “Reading Mary Wollstonecraft in Time.” In Eileen Hunt Botting, ed. Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp.280-88 (2014). ReadingMWInTime

Given the recent discussion of emergencies, real and created, I thought back to my dear, late colleague Murray Edelman, and the chapter he wrote on the political uses of “crisis” in his excellent book, Political Language.  I doubt younger generations have read much of his work. I share this particular chapter here. EdelmanCrises

Planting season means no time to blog, but in working on my history of higher education in the U.S. (Nebraska phase), I ran across this in the July, 1951 issue of Mennonite Life: An Illustrated Quarterly. Just had to share. Don’t miss the fact that they credit the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company in […]

My father, Bill Sapiro, grew up in Detroit in the 1920s and 1930s. His parents moved there from New York in very different ways. My grandfather, Abram, was born on the Lower East Side of New York in the 1880s, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Unusually, he made his way to Ann Arbor to […]