After retiring, she taught oral history methodology at Bryn Mawr College.
[1] She was the principal consultant for the Bicentennial Labor History Exhibit for the Philadelphia Council of the AFL-CIO.
The book provided a "powerful model" for the utility of interviews and memorial evidence in historical investigations.
[5] The Hoffmans also co-edited The Cruikshank Chronicles: Anecdotes, Stories, and Memoirs of a New Deal Liberal, with a foreword by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.
[6] Hoffman is the daughter of labor activist Nelson Cruikshank and his wife Florence Crane.