Barbara Sommer (Barbara Windschill)

Worthington High School

Class of 1964

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Barbara Windschill - Class of 1964 - Worthington High School

First Name	Barbara
Last Name	Sommer
Maiden Name	Windschill
Graduation Year	Class of 1964
Gender	Female
Current Location	St. Paul, Minnesota
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	Barbara W. Sommer, a Minnesota native and an oral historian for almost thirty years, has spent her career in the field of public history, serving as historical organization director and director or co-director for numerous oral history projects. She has led oral history workshops and has presented at state, regional, and national, and international conferences. She is a long-time member of the Oral History Association and has taught oral history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Nebraska Wesleyan University. Sommer is the author of Hard Work and a Good Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota, released by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in January 2008, and “’We Had This Opportunity:’ African Americans and the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota,” in The State We’re In: Reflections on Minnesota History (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 2010):134-157. With Mary Kay Quinlan, she is co-author of The Oral History Manual, The Oral History Manual, 2nd ed., and The People Who Made It Work: A Centennial History of the Cushman Motor Works, and with Quinlan and Paul Eisloeffel, she is a co-author of Capturing the Living Past: An Oral History Primer, on the Nebraska Historical Society website (http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/audiovis/oral_history/index.htm. 2005). She is the co-author with Charles E. Trimble and Mary Kay Quinlan of The American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many Voices Heard. Recent publications include the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit with Quinlan and Nancy MacKay and Quilt House: The International Quilt Study Center & Museum, a history of this institution in Lincoln, Nebraska. Sommer is the winner of a Minnesota Book Award, Minnesota category, a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award, General Nonfiction category, and an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History for Hard Work and a Good Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and a master’s d...(read more)