Content Description Creating and Teaching Real World History is a companion project to the Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project. This project includes interviews with Cosby Hunt, creator of the Real World History program, Caitlin Wolf, co-teacher of Real World History from 2015-2017, and Ms. Edith Crutchfield, a long-time D.C. resident who moved to Washington, D.C., from Culpeper, Virginia, in 1953. Ms. Crutchfield first became involved with Real World History when she...

Scope and Contents This is the first session of a life history interview with Edith Crutchfield. In this interview Ms. Crutchfield primarily discusses her early life in Culpeper, Virginia, before moving to Washington, D.C., at age 17 in 1953. In discussing her upbringing, Ms. Edith talks extensively about her family life with her parents and nine sisters. She talks about her parents work and explains that she and all her sisters began domestic work at age 11. Ms. Edith also discusses her educational...

Scope and Contents

This is the first session of a life history interview with Cosby Hunt, a career educator, native Washingtonian, and creator of Real World History at the Center for Inspired Teaching. In this interview Cosby Hunt reflects on this his family background, his parent’s lives, and his early life in Washington, D.C., in the 1970s and 1980s.

Scope and Contents This is the first session of a life history interview with Edith Crutchfield. In this interview Ms. Crutchfield primarily discusses her early life in Culpeper, Virginia, before moving to Washington, D.C., at age 17 in 1953. In discussing her upbringing, Ms. Edith talks extensively about her family life with her parents and nine sisters. She talks about her parents work and explains that she and all her sisters began domestic work at age 11. Ms. Edith also discusses her educational...

Scope and Contents

This is the first session of a life history interview with Cosby Hunt, a career educator, native Washingtonian, and creator of Real World History at the Center for Inspired Teaching. In this interview Cosby Hunt reflects on this his family background, his parent’s lives, and his early life in Washington, D.C., in the 1970s and 1980s.

Scope and Contents

This is the first session of a life history interview with Cosby Hunt, a career educator, native Washingtonian, and creator of Real World History at the Center for Inspired Teaching. In this interview Cosby Hunt reflects on this his family background, his parent’s lives, and his early life in Washington, D.C., in the 1970s and 1980s.

Scope and Contents This is the first session of a life history interview with Edith Crutchfield. In this interview Ms. Crutchfield primarily discusses her early life in Culpeper, Virginia, before moving to Washington, D.C., at age 17 in 1953. In discussing her upbringing, Ms. Edith talks extensively about her family life with her parents and nine sisters. She talks about her parents work and explains that she and all her sisters began domestic work at age 11. Ms. Edith also discusses her educational...

Scope and Contents This is the second session of a life history interview with Edith Crutchfield. In this interview Ms. Crutchfield reflects on her upbringing in Culpeper, Virginia, the move to Washington, D.C., in 1953 at age 17, and her life in Washington. She speaks about her experiences with segregation and discrimination in D.C. and discusses how she and her sisters helped each other transition into life in Washington. Ms. Crutchfield recalls being able to vote for the first time when the District was...

Scope and Contents This is the second session of a life history interview with Cosby Hunt, a career educator, native Washingtonian, and creator of Real World History at the Center for Inspired Teaching. In this interview Cosby Hunt discusses some early memories but mainly focuses on his adolescent years and high school experience. He talks about a variety of subjects including: visits to Danville, Virginia, to visit his father’s family, his mother’s parents in Boston, Massachusetts, his interest in painting as...