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...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 29, 2021 | Alvin Josephy, Blaine Harden, historiography, Sara Koenig, spalding, Spokane Garry, whitman
When I had the bookstore all those years ago, I kept a big supply of Bison Books from the University of Nebraska that told the tales of the fur traders and mountain men. It was not my thing; American history was not my thing. I read fiction and short stories,...
