by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 31, 2023 | Alvin Josephy, Gaza, Jack McClaran, Netanyahu
Alvin Josephy’s been gone for almost 20 years, but his teachings hover over me as I try to make sense of today’s world. Before he was a noted historian of and activist on behalf of the Nez Perce and other Indian peoples, he was a Marine Corps journalist in the Pacific...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 5, 2022 | Buchenwald, Holocaust, Jack McClaran, World War II
Celebrities are getting in on it—basketball star Kyrie Irving and entertainer Kanye West the latest: “Antisemitism is one of the longest-standing forms of prejudice, and those who monitor it say it is now on the rise in America,” says the New York Times today. There...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 12, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, General Denig, Guam, Iwo Jima, Jack McClaran, william stafford, World War II
Here’s a “blog break” from Indians and Western American History and affairs. Last Friday was D-Day, and the opening of our special WW II program at the Josephy Center. The program owes in part to the late Jack McClaran, a local rancher and strong friend of Alvin...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 16, 2012 | Buchenwald, Jack McClaran, World War II
When I traveled to bookstores, libraries, and museums with Alvin Josephy after the publication of A Walk Towards Oregon, the chapter that drew the most consistent comment was the one on the War. Fellow marine and navy vets came up with their own memories of Guam and...
