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

    23 Mar 2022

    Following 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 2022

    World 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 2022

    History, 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 2022

    The 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 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…

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  • Quick Recommendations

    16 Dec 2021

    A 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 2021

    Walk 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 2021

    Milton 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 2021

    Twelve 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 2021

    Richard 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 2021

    The 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 2021

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

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