by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 10, 2020 | Alvin Josephy, Caribs, Chief Joseph, Columbus, ethnocentricity, George Floyd, Henry Luce, name “Indians”, Navajo Nation, Nez Perce, Patriot Chiefs, Time Magazine
Alvin Josephy passed away almost two decades ago, but time and again, during this coronavirus/Black Lives crisis, I have heard him shout in my ear that when our history books don’t lie about Indians, they ignore them.When the NYT sends a reporter to the Navajo Nation...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 4, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, Bobbie Conner, Cliff Trafzer, Nez Perce, Nez Perce National Park, Tamastslikt, Time Magazine
Gordie High Eagle, Millie Zollman, Albert Barros On Sunday at the Josephy Center we honored Alvin with Nez Perce drums and talk and a new exhibit highlighting some of the milestones in his life. This all followed the opening of a splendid Nez Perce Art Show. The...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 14, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, Crazy Horse, Custer Battlefield, Josephy Library intern, Life Magazine, Time Magazine
Dave Struthers, a recent graduate of Stanford University from Sacramento, California, is our new Josephy Library intern. He started yesterday, and we started him tracking down the Time Magazine “color” spreads that Alvin did from 1951-61. We have about a dozen old...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 28, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, Henry Luce, Mossadegh, Time Magazine
“You don’t know what it was like to work for Henry Luce!” Alvin blurted, and ran from the room to fetch an old folder. Alvin, Betty, daughter Allison and I were in the Josephy family living room in Greenwich, looking at home movies which had been transferred to a VCR...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 1, 2012 | American Heritage, David McCullough, High Country News, Jackson Hole Institute, Narrative history, Time Magazine
Always, for Alvin, “story” was the important notion in “history.” He insisted on accuracy, trusted the testimony of individuals, and was disgusted by some of the stilted prose and arcane argument of the academics. He loved the idea of history permeating our lives. And...
