All In One Boat

~ And Heading Through the Straits of Messina

All In One Boat

Author Archives: Will Kirkland

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq

3/23/2022

Following on my several readings of the use and misuse of history regarding the American Civil war (The Half Has …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Looking For the Good War — Elizabeth D. Samet

3/8/2022

World War Two is, as we all know, “the Good War,” and those who fought it, “The Greatest Generation.” In …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Forget The Alamo – History Surfacing

1/31/2022

History, it is said, is written by the winners.  Well, not always. The history of the Alamo, as it has …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism – Edward E Baptist

1/14/2022

The international slave-trade from Africa to the New World was banned by England in 1807, America in 1808, Spain, Sweden …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

“Blood Done Sign My Name” & “Down Along With That Devil’s Bones” – Two Stories of the White South

12/20/2021

Following my reading of Susan Neiman’s, Learning From the Germans, in which she examines America’s and Germany’s differing responses to the …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Quick Recommendations

12/16/2021

A quick note to applaud Will Smith’s “Amend: The Fight for America” now on Netflix.  A very well done six …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman

12/6/2021

Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 — Milton Mayer

10/29/2021

Milton Mayer’s They Thought They Were Free, had long been on my reading list.  By unhappy coincidence this turned out …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup, and other Slave Narratives

10/23/2021

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, published in 1854, was somewhat of a sensation that year, selling over 30,000 …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright

9/25/2021

Richard Wright’s recently published The Man Who Who Lived Underground, (2021),was itself  buried for years in the catacombs of Yale’s …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston

9/18/2021

The title line in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) comes a good way into the novel.  …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Black Boy – Richard Wright

8/27/2021

It occurred to me as I was listening to a wonderful reading of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) that it …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...
← Older posts

♣ Quotes

  • On Life and Death
  • On Time
  • On War
  • Workers, Unions and Organizing in Literature

♣ Search Here

♣ Categories

African-American Books Books:Fiction Books:History Books:Memoir Books:Nonfiction Books:Science Books:Translation Books:War China Climate Change Drought Egypt Essay:Will Kirkland Essays Fiction Fiction:American Fiction:Arabic Fiction:War Fiction:WW I History Japan Movies Movies:America Movies:Documentary Movies:France Movies:Middle East Movies:War Movies:WW I Movies:WW II Music Novels Poetry Poetry:Will Kirkland Review Science Spain Translation Travel Reports Turkey Vietnam War WW I WW II WW I Timeline

♣ blog roll

  • ! The Last Dog Watch
  • .Ara Guler (Turkey) Photographs
  • .Will Kirkland Photos
  • Bridge of Hearts
  • California League of Conservation Voters Blog
  • Earth Policy Institute
  • Junk
  • Kutub: A Reading Group
  • Open Secrets
  • Siegfried Sassoon War Journals

♣ Environment: Action

  • Acterra
  • Blue Energy Group
  • Climate Solutions
  • Earth Policy Institute
  • Ecological Buddhism
  • International Rivers
  • Junk
  • Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Western Climate Initiative

♣ Environment: Blogs

  • Attention to the Unseen
  • California League of Conservation Voters Blog
  • Junk

♣ Environment: Documents

  • Discovery of Global Warming
  • IPCC 2021 Report
  • Resources for Climate Change
  • Wangari Maathai: Nobel Peace Prize Speech

♣ Environment: Organizations

  • Baiji Foundation — Freshwater Diversity
  • Center for Biological Diversity
  • Dispatches from the Vanishing World
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • International Rivers
  • Quaker Earthcare Witness
  • Surfrider Foundation
  • The Species Alliance
  • Weather and Climate.net

♣ Pieces of Peace

  • Bridge of Hearts

♣ Politics:Blogs

  • RobertScheer

♣ Public Policy

  • Climate Solutions
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • Open Secrets
  • Resources for Climate Change
  • The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
  • Western Climate Initiative

♣ Religion: Documents

  • UU World: The Fundamentalist Agenda

♣ War & Empire:Blogs

  • War In Context

♣ War & Empire:Documents

  • National Security: Principles to Live By
  • Siegfried Sassoon War Journals

♣ War & Empire:Organizations

  • National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
  • The International Crisis Group

♣ Back Issues

Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Chateau by Ignacio Ricci.

%d bloggers like this: