February 20, 2008 – 10:17 am
What actually happens is not always in the history books.
I grew up in California in the 50’s, graduating from high school in 1961, only 16 years after World War II ended. So how was it possible that in all my classes there was not one mention of the internment of Americans of Japanese [...]
February 16, 2008 – 5:47 am
At Little Big Horn National Monument, a low, iron railing surrounds the modest, marble slabs that mark where each white man fell. The fenced rectangle is smaller than my back yard. Custer’s Last Stand…for 123 years an immense celebration of an ignominious outrage. The day is overcast, cold, and wet. Forty-eight degrees [...]
February 12, 2008 – 6:44 pm
Born 199 years ago, February 12, 1809: Charles Darwin, who changed the way we think about a human’s place in the bios, and Abraham Lincoln, who changed the way we think about a human’s place in society.
