by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 25, 2014 | Alfred Crosby, Alvin Josephy, Squanto, Thanksgiving, Tisquantum
I wrote this piece a few months ago as my Chieftain newspaper column–but it is really a Thanksgiving item. So apologies if you saw it then, and Happy Thanksgiving–and Turkey and Corn and Squash–in any case!Remember that third or fourth grade...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 8, 2014 | Alfred Crosby, Alice Fletcher, Allen Pinkham, Alvin Josephy, Charles Mann, Columbian Exchange, Dawes Act, Nez Perce
In preparation for my Portland presentation on the Nez Perce in the Wallowa Country tomorrow night, and thinking about this ecosystems/ Pacific NW tribes class I am teaching in La Grande, I got to wondering about which elements of Alfred Crosby’s Columbian Exchange...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 24, 2014 | Alfred Crosby, Alvin Josephy, Brian Fagan, chaco canyon, climate change, global warming, greenland, little ice age, Medieval warming
In my last blog I wrote about an interview I came across with Alfred Crosby, historian and author of “The Columbian Exchange.” Crosby said that he had tired of teaching the standard American history of Washington and Jefferson, and, looking for deeper stories of early...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 5, 2014 | Alfred Crosby, Alvin Josephy, Charles Mann, historiography
Commenting on my last blog, in which I played that major Josephy song about Indians being omitted from the standard American historical narrative, retired history prof Steve Evans said that he would ask students what American history would look like without...
