Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, I didn't learn much in my history classes about women. In fact, about the only women whose names were...

I'm often asked to do free-lance writing, and I was working on an article about Boston radio in the 1960s. That led me to various newspa...

I've never met Megyn Kelly. But based on what she said a couple of days ago, she seems to believe I'm a fraud. Agreed, she didn'...

When I was in high school, I don't recall learning anything about the Civil Rights Movement. Our American history books in the late 1950...

I've mentioned in a previous blog post that I enjoy playing word games; it's a way to keep my mind sharp. I've especially become...

I was walking to class the other day and stopped to say hi to one of my students. She looked like she'd been shopping, so I asked her wh...

I was sorry, but not surprised, to hear that Cleveland's Record Revolution (or Record Rev, as we used to call it) was closing. If you ar...