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 | May 18, 2022 | Alvin Josephy, Chuck Sams, dams, Deb Haaland, fire
It’s a heavy job to give to Indians—and I use “Indians” here in deference to older tribal people who still use that term comfortably—but I don’t know who else we turn to. Young white men are killing African-Americans and Asian-Americans. Young Blacks are killing each...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 29, 2019 | Brian Fagan, California fires, climate change, fire, fire suppression, Indian use of fire, living with fire, The Great Warming
About 700 or 800 years ago—more detailed times and accounts of them are in a book called The Great Warming, by Brian Fagan—California shriveled in drought, and much of it died. Half the live oak trees and half the people who depended on them as a major food source...
