Tona J. Hangen

TONA HANGEN is a Ph.D. candidate and a Crown Fellow in the History of American Civilization program at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, and is currently writing her doctoral dissertation, "Redeeming the Dial: Evangelical Radio and Religious Culture, 1920-1960." She and her husband, Don, and their two sons live on a small farm in Massachusetts.

A Place to Call Home: Studying the Indian Placement Program

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 1

Late morning heat shimmers off the hood of my battered Honda. Nothing in sight ahead but more parched fields stretching under an opal sky. A box of cassette tapes in the back seat rattles a…

Brattle Street Elegy: Buildings

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 4

Our new, low, brick ward building is about a mile from my house. It’s an easy walk there, on clean, neat sidewalks, through a young development of nearly identical ranches and split-levels in the suburbs…