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Snippet of text from The Moon Jumpers by Janice May Udry, one of our favorite summer reads.
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She used every tool available to teach young readers (and especially young women) how to see history in creative new ways. If the available textbooks were tedious (and they were), she would write better ones. If they lacked illustrations, she would provide them. If maps would help, so be it: she would fill in that gap as well. She worked with engravers and printers to get it done. She was finding her way forward in a male-dominated world, with no map to guide her. So she made one herself.
Ted Widmer, "America's First Female Mapmaker." The Paris Review, 6/18/2018.
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Trump administration officials, under pressure from the White House to provide a rationale for reducing the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year, rejected a study by the Department of Health and Human Services that found that refugees brought in $63 billion more in government revenues over the past decade than they cost.
NYT, 9/18/2017.
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Listening: Les Filles des Illighadad, "Tende."
