PETER RUTKOFF and WILL SCOTT have worked together for twenty-five years. At Kenyon College they teach American Studies and history, respectively, and are the authors of New School: A History of the New School for Social Research and New York Modern: The Arts and the City. Between 1997 and 2000 they jointly held the NEH Chair in Distinguished Teaching at Kenyon where they developed the award-winning course “North by South.” They are currently completing their new book, Fly Away: The Great African American Migration, from which their Kenyon Review essay is taken.
