by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 4, 2017 | Allen Pinkham, Alvin Josephy, American Heritage Book of Indians, de Oviedo, las casas, Nez Perce canoe
My childhood recollections of New World history move quickly from Columbus and the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria to Squanto and the Puritans on the other side of the continent. In neither case did we get much real history, but rather sloganeering echoes passed from...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 14, 2014 | 12 years a slave, fagan, hispaniola, hobbes, las casas, nasty brutish and short, pope francis, slavery, torture
I’ve not yet seen the Academy Award winning “12 Years a Slave,” but the clips and conversation about slavery and brutality are visceral. Writer John Ridley said in a radio interview that he hoped the film would promote continuing conversations about these difficult...
