by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 24, 2025 | 1968, Civil Rights, fire, martin luther king, President Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Vietnam
1968 was a hard year in America. The assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy rocked us, and the riots and fires that followed on the streets of cities, including Washington D.C., made it seem like an all-out revolution or civil war might come. Civil...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 15, 2021 | 1855 treaty, Chief Joseph, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Nez Perce treaty, Nez Perce Tribe, Wallowa, wallowa homeland, women’s rights
Our national founding documents talk about all men being created “equal,” and many see the history of the country as a gradual expansion of “all men” to include black men—14th Amendment, 1868; women—19th Amendment, 1920; and, in 1924, when they were finally given...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 23, 2020 | 60s, assassinations, Civil Rights, Cold War, COVID-19, Kennedy, riots, Vietnam
In junior high in the 1950s we read secreted copies of Battle Cry on the bus—there were four-letter words—and watched movies of war heroics. I remember real war hero Audie Murphy in “To Hell and Back,” actors William Holden and Alec Guinness in “The Bridge on the...
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 | Oct 13, 2016 | Civil Rights, Columbian Exchange, encominedas, Indian slavery, Indian vote, Latino, President Obama, Treaty Rights
In this election year, African Americans and Latinos are getting a lot of attention. Immigrants too. We are a “nation of them.” Oops—Indians were here when the first European immigrants arrived, and are still. (But their voting numbers are small, and they are...
