History and the Texture of Modern Life: Selected EssaysAlmost a century ago Vassar professor Lucy Maynard Salmon (1853 1927) started down an intellectual path that made her one of the most innovative historians of all time. Her historical method relied on extensive use of the documents of everyday life. In class, for example, she surprised her students with laundry lists, grocery receipts, and newspapers, and asked them to interpret these ephemera as historical documents. What did the laundry receipts