When it comes to Scouting, I’m a washout. Not only didn’t I make it past Cub Scouts, tying my shoes is about as advanced as my knot repertoire gets. Fortunately, David Scott and Brendan Murphy’s The Scouting Party: Pioneering and Preservation, Progressivism and Preparedness in the Making of the Boy Scouts of America [...]
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Tim July 28th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, history, nonfiction, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | 3 comments |
 Print This Post |  Email This PostTitling a book may well be an art form in and of itself. Undoubtedly, the goal is to not simply to attract a reader but to convey something about the book itself. I have no idea how much study or analysis went into naming Dean King’s Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, [...] Tim July 12th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, history, nonfiction, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | 2 comments |
Print This Post | Email This PostThere are events in everyone’s life that affect our views and attitudes even if we are not personally or even indirectly involved. One of the events that impacted the course and development of my political views happened 40 years ago today — the shootings at Kent State by the Ohio National Guard that left [...] Tim May 4th, 2010 | Tags: history, Kent State shootings, Politics | Category: Personal/Family, Politics | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostApril isn’t ending well for a couple of historians. Orlando Figes, a University of London professor who specializes in Russian history, was identified as the author of some scathing reviews of other historians’ books on Amazon. Figes originally claimed his wife wrote the the reviews but now has ‘fessed up. But that [...] Tim April 28th, 2010 | Tags: Books, history | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostGiven recent history, it would seem the term “ethnic cleansing” is of late 20th Century origin. Armenian Golgotha, Grigoris Balakian’s firsthand account of the Armenian genocide during World War I, disabuses any such notion. Balakian, an Armenian priest, notes several times that the Ottoman Empire embarked on an intentional campaign to “cleanse” itself [...] Tim April 20th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, history, memoir, nonfiction, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostUsually lurking somewhere in today’s ongoing immigration debate is an idealized notion of times when the vast majority of those coming to our shores were Europeans. One of those periods was the early part of the 20th Century when eastern, central and southern Europeans came en masse. More than 1 ¼ million immigrants [...] Tim April 12th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, history, immigration, nonfiction, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This Post“Legend” is a word tossed around too easily and misused too often. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a legend is “an unverified story handed down from earlier times, especially one popularly believed to be historical.” In titling his latest book, James D. McLaird demonstrates he knows what the word means. Wild Bill Hickok [...] Tim April 5th, 2010 | Tags: biography, Book Reviews, history, nonfiction, Review Copy, South Dakota history | Category: Book Reviews | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostWhen people hear the word LSD or the phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out,” a couple images likely come to mind. One is Timothy Leary, the most publicized advocate of LSD. Another is a group of spaced-out hippies in psychedelic clothing (often optional) at a “be-in.” What probably doesn’t come to [...] Tim March 24th, 2010 | Tags: 1960s, Book Reviews, drugs, history, LSD, nonfiction, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostThere’s a saying a number of people my age share: “If you remember the ’70s, it means you didn’t live through them.” British journalist and author Francis Wheen, though, has me thinking that maybe that lack of memory was not chemically induced but, rather, the result of trying to forget. With Strange Days Indeed: The [...] Tim March 19th, 2010 | Tags: 1970s, Book Reviews, history, nonfiction, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostBy their nature, historic figures tend to be locked on particular periods in their lives. If they also happen to become a key character on television or in film, it is fairly certain they will be forever stereotyped by that portrayal. For many, Seth Bullock has become the handsome, somewhat idealistic and good-hearted [...] Tim March 15th, 2010 | Tags: biography, Book Reviews, history, Review Copy, South Dakota history | Category: Book Reviews | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
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