Margaret I Nelson

Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade

How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To explore these and other questions, Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin assembled essays from leading ...

The Girl from the Ditch Dump Road: The Saga of Mary Randolph

Mary Randolph faces the challenges of growing up in rural southeast Missouri in the 40's and 50's. As she learns the hard lessons that develop her character and her future, she is stalked by creatures and beings who would end the pursuit of that future. Her secret advantage is exploited and honed as...

Mimbres Lives and Landscapes

People have called the mountains, rolling hills, wide valleys, and broad desert plains of southwestern New Mexico home for at least ten thousand years. When they began to farm a little more than two thousand years ago, they settled near the rich soils in the river floodplains. Then, around 900 CE, t...

Who's Watching?: Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families

Although family members sometime engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and their own borders to preserve norms about what a family should be and what family members should do. Whether it is the seemingly benign surveillance o...

Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times

They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to remove all obstacles from their child’s path to greatness . . . or at least to an ivy league school. From cradle to coll...

Quilt Pieces: Mary Randolph Begins (The Girl from the Ditch Dump Road) (Volume 1)

Three Books tell Mary Randolph’s story. In Book One Mary begins her journey. Evil creatures and beings confront her as she discovers her secret power and courage

Mimbres During the Twelfth Century: Abandonment, Continuity, and Reorganization

The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America

The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America

Saving Body and Soul: The Mission of Mary Jo Copeland

Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives

Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America

Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America

Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives