There are a lot of things we don’t know about the people who came before us. We don’t know how or why they dressed and spoke and related to each other as people in their society. We are fuzzy about… Read More ›
Slavery
WHAT WE ALWAYS HAVE BEEN – RICH PASCHALL
From the battleground, by Rich Paschall With the continual unrest across the country and the prospects that in some places it will not end soon, many may be asking themselves, “How did things get to be like this? When did… Read More ›
A BRIEF AND BROKEN MINI-HISTORY OF AMERICA – MARILYN ARMSTRONG
America was born bankrupt. We won a war we shouldn’t have won and created a country without any funding or industry. That’s the good part. The rest of it, not so much. The United States is named that because we… Read More ›
WE KNEW WHO WE’D BE – Marilyn Armstrong
It has been pointed out to me that there’s a lot we don’t know about the people who came before us. How — why — they dressed and spoke and related to each other as people in their society. We… Read More ›
IF IT WASN’T ABOUT SLAVERY, WHAT WAS IT ABOUT? – Marilyn Armstrong
I have been a-wandering in a strange, alternative universe called Facebook. It’s a place where anyone’s opinion is as good as anyone else’s. At some point yesterday evening I stumbled into a heated exchange about the Civil War. That it was… Read More ›
A TOUGH GO FOR AMERICAN CONSCIENCES
It was pointed out to me that there’s a lot we don’t know about the people who came before us. How — why — they dressed and spoke and related to each other as people in their society. We are… Read More ›
IN THE CLUTCH: A ROUGH GO FOR AN AMERICAN CONSCIENCE
It was pointed out to me this morning that there’s a lot we don’t know about the people who came before us. How — why — they dressed and spoke and related to each other as people in their society…. Read More ›
THE FAR ARENA ON AUDIBLE.COM
“The Far Arena” by Richard Ben Sapir. Narrated by Peter Noble. This great book is finally available again in print as well as on Kindle and as an Audiobook from Audible.com. Thirty-six years after I first read it, you can… Read More ›
RIVER OF DESTINY – BORN ON THE BLACKSTONE
BORN ON THE BLACKSTONE: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Born Bankrupt America was born bankrupt. We won a revolution, but lost everything else. Our economy depended on Great Britain. We produced raw material, but England turned materials into goods. Not… Read More ›
The Far Arena, by Richard Ben Sapir – Roman Ways In Modern Days
The Far Arena by Richard Ben Sapir I just bought a used copy of this long out-of-print book. I first read it when it was released in 1978. I was working at Doubleday as a book club editor. It fell to… Read More ›