by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 9, 2023 | Alvin Josephy, American Indian history, American Indian Religious Freedom Act, Anglo-American, Gaza, Israel, Palestine
In the introduction to America In 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus, a book of essays Alvin Josephy edited and published on the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s landing in the Caribbean, he wrote that: “Commencing with Columbus’s...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 2, 2018 | American Indians, Anglo-American, DNA, Germans, Manifest Destiny, Scandinavians, whiteness
Viking TravelsA few years ago my sister had a DNA profile done. To her surprise, the family stories, passed down from Minnesota Germans and Norwegians, that said our mother’s people were pure Scandinavian and dad’s side was all German, turned out to be more...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 22, 2017 | Alvin Josephy, Anglo-American, Civil Rights, GI Bill, Manifest Destiny, military integration, Richard White, white identity, World War II
American Progress, by John Gast 1872Manifest Destiny was an idea long before it had a name, and what it was really about was not the “white man’s burden,” but an Anglo-American one, the idea that the arrow of civilization and mantle of world leadership had passed from...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 30, 2017 | American ethnicity, Anglo-American, Great migration, integration of military, Manifest Destiny, racism, World War II
I believe that Manifest Destiny was the nineteenth century idea that the United States of American—led by Anglo-Americans—was picking up the mantel of world leadership and the white man’s burden from the British Empire and would become greater than its predecessor. I...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 25, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, Anglo-American, Manifest Destiny, Metis, Pacific Northwest History Conference, Treaty of Ghent
I was thinking about this blog post on my morning bike ride, and out of nowhere came a remark made by an old professor of mine about 50 years ago—“the United States has never been a melting pot, unless you think of it as all melting towards Anglo-American.” They are...
