by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 24, 2025 | Burns, Declaration of independence, George Washington, Indian history, Indian Summers: Washington State College
I have been watching the Ken Burns production on the American Revolution, and am struck immediately by the many things in that formative history of the nation that are not registered by the current political advocates of all stripes, and especially by those espousing...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 11, 2024 | George Washington, Indian population, Marcus Whitman, measles, mumps, smallpox, vaccination, vaccine, Whitman massacre
A friend texted me to say that she “got whooping cough for Christmas.” I’m 82 and don’t remember knowing anyone with whooping cough. Maybe it was around when I was young, but my own disease related memories are chicken pox—mom taking me to the neighbor’s house to...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 28, 2024 | David McCullough, George Washington, Indian assimilation, Indian history, Indian land tenure, Indian removal, Indian survival, Indian treaties, Indian wars, Jill Lepore, Ned Blackhawk, Sara Koenig, The Rediscovery of America, whitman, Whitman massacre
There are new revelations on every page in Ned Blackhawk’s ambitious The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. In putting Indians back into the history of the country, rather than treating the trials and tribulations of Indian...
