by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 18, 2025 | Alvin Josephy, Guam, Ivan Doig, Iwo Jima, Jean Wakatsuki Houston, Richard White
This morning a friend texted to say that Alvin Josephy was on public radio at 6:15 this morning, and that I might catch him at the 8:00 hour. It was a two-minute segment on Morning Edition, commemorating—“bringing to life”—the WW II battle for Iwo Jima. I’m having a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 22, 2017 | Alvin Josephy, Anglo-American, Civil Rights, GI Bill, Manifest Destiny, military integration, Richard White, white identity, World War II
American Progress, by John Gast 1872Manifest Destiny was an idea long before it had a name, and what it was really about was not the “white man’s burden,” but an Anglo-American one, the idea that the arrow of civilization and mantle of world leadership had passed from...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 1, 2017 | Alvin Josephy, Executive order 9066, Gwen Coffin, Japanese internment, Jean Wakatsuki Houston, Manzanar, Richard White, Wallowa County Chieftain
Gwen Coffin with Senator Bob PackwoodFebruary 19 marked the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable.” The military then defined the...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 5, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, Fishtrap, Ivan Doig, Pacific Northwest Booksellers, Richard White
The Daily News OnlineI think it was the fall of 1977 or the spring of 1978. We had opened the Bookloft in Enterprise in late 1976, and were going to our first “trade show.” It was in a Seattle hotel, and there were tables and tables of books—books recently published...
