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Why did you write Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid? I decided to write Separated because the stories I was told deserved more depth, empathy, and richness than other formats would permit. The lives of the women and...

Why One Refrigeration History Book Was Not EnoughI first became interested in the history of refrigeration while I was in graduate school, when I started leafing through back issues of a late-nineteenth century trade journal housed in the engineering library...

In the late-1990s, the fourth floor of the Engineering Library at the University of Wisconsin – Madison was filled with hundred-year old trade journals. I was writing a dissertation about the steel industry, but when you first came off the elevator right at...