Archive for the ‘Art & Culture’ Category
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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
23 Mar 2022Following on my several readings of the use and misuse of history regarding the American Civil war (The Half Has…
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Looking For the Good War — Elizabeth D. Samet
08 Mar 2022World War Two is, as we all know, “the Good War,” and those who fought it, “The Greatest Generation.” In…
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Forget The Alamo – History Surfacing
31 Jan 2022History, it is said, is written by the winners. Well, not always. The history of the Alamo, as it has…
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism – Edward E Baptist
14 Jan 2022The international slave-trade from Africa to the New World was banned by England in 1807, America in 1808, Spain, Sweden…
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“Blood Done Sign My Name” & “Down Along With That Devil’s Bones” – Two Stories of the White South
20 Dec 2021Following my reading of Susan Neiman’s, Learning From the Germans, in which she examines America’s and Germany’s differing responses to the…
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Quick Recommendations
16 Dec 2021A quick note to applaud Will Smith’s “Amend: The Fight for America” now on Netflix. A very well done six…
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Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman
06 Dec 2021Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other…
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 — Milton Mayer
29 Oct 2021Milton Mayer’s They Thought They Were Free, had long been on my reading list. By unhappy coincidence this turned out…
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Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup, and other Slave Narratives
23 Oct 2021Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, published in 1854, was somewhat of a sensation that year, selling over 30,000…
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The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright
25 Sep 2021Richard Wright’s recently published The Man Who Who Lived Underground, (2021),was itself buried for years in the catacombs of Yale’s…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
18 Sep 2021The title line in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) comes a good way into the novel. …
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Black Boy – Richard Wright
27 Aug 2021It occurred to me as I was listening to a wonderful reading of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) that it…
