by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 25, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, Anglo-American, Manifest Destiny, Metis, Pacific Northwest History Conference, Treaty of Ghent
I was thinking about this blog post on my morning bike ride, and out of nowhere came a remark made by an old professor of mine about 50 years ago—“the United States has never been a melting pot, unless you think of it as all melting towards Anglo-American.” They are...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 11, 2012 | 500 nations, Alvin Josephy, Bear River Massacre, Civil War and Indians, Pacific Northwest History Conference, Sand Creek Massacre
Back in April, I got notice that the theme for the Pacific Northwest History Association’s fall meeting in Tacoma, Washington was to be “The Civil War and Civil Rights.” As it happened, I was reading Alvin J’s The Civil War in the American West at the time, and...
