by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 5, 2022 | Buchenwald, Holocaust, Jack McClaran, World War II
Celebrities are getting in on it—basketball star Kyrie Irving and entertainer Kanye West the latest: “Antisemitism is one of the longest-standing forms of prejudice, and those who monitor it say it is now on the rise in America,” says the New York Times today. There...
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 | Jun 30, 2017 | American ethnicity, Anglo-American, Great migration, integration of military, Manifest Destiny, racism, World War II
I believe that Manifest Destiny was the nineteenth century idea that the United States of American—led by Anglo-Americans—was picking up the mantel of world leadership and the white man’s burden from the British Empire and would become greater than its predecessor. I...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 28, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, Chester Nez, Code Talker, Navajo, Patriot Chiefs, World War II, WW II in Pacific
The last of the original 29 World War II Navajo code-talkers, Chester Nez, passed just weeks ago at the age of 93. The cruel ironies in his story are many, but the greatest of them haunted Nez to the end: “All those years, telling you not to speak Navajo, and then to...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 12, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, General Denig, Guam, Iwo Jima, Jack McClaran, william stafford, World War II
Here’s a “blog break” from Indians and Western American History and affairs. Last Friday was D-Day, and the opening of our special WW II program at the Josephy Center. The program owes in part to the late Jack McClaran, a local rancher and strong friend of Alvin...
by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 16, 2012 | Buchenwald, Jack McClaran, World War II
When I traveled to bookstores, libraries, and museums with Alvin Josephy after the publication of A Walk Towards Oregon, the chapter that drew the most consistent comment was the one on the War. Fellow marine and navy vets came up with their own memories of Guam and...
