by admin | Jun 26, 2017 | Books, History
Some stuff you just can’t make up and the final chapter, perhaps the epilogue, in the life of Marie Olesen Urbanski Whittaker is like that. This being my blog and all, I’m going to tell it from my point of view, which may seem a bit improbable....
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Books, History
I’ve decided to create a portmanteau – “Twiss” – a combination of Tweet and Diss. Since twist is already a word, it might not work, but we’ll see how it goes. And of course the Twisser In Chief is Donald Trump. Donald Trump...
by admin | Dec 19, 2016 | Books, History
Off and on, I have been reading The Earth Is Weeping – The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens. It is, of course, a very sad story, one that cries out for there had to be a better way. Regardless, it is well done and rich in...
by admin | Nov 3, 2016 | Books, History
…..memory is made, not found and what we remember matters. – Lisa Tetrault This post is something of a personal reaction to The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement by Lisa Tetrault, so I should start with the most...
by admin | Aug 15, 2016 | Books, History
My readership on this blog, which may well be numbered in the scores, is probably waiting with bated breath for the finale of my memoir of the decline of the military at Xavier High School. One of the reasons for the delay is that I keep hoping for more input from my...
by admin | Jul 5, 2016 | Books, History
It is hard to believe that I could catch an otherwise unremarked anachronism in a novel by a major novelist that was published by Alfred Knopf. Well maybe it’s just me, but we’ll see what you think. The novel is Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo....
