Resisting Tyranny – Led by the Young
1972 in Czechoslovakia was 4 years after the 1968 Prague Spring, seven months of relative freedom which ended abruptly with …
Monthly Archives: August 2015
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
Nothing like good history, thoroughly researched and well written, helps better to put in place pieces of the immense human puzzle …
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
A recent article in the NY Times Tuesday Science section caught my attention and brought to mind one of the …
Resisted War, Resisted Racism, Resisted Silence: George Houser
Ninety Nine years is only the last accomplishment of George Houser’s amazing life: WW II conscientious objector, 1940 Co-founder of the …
Walking the Sierras, One Millennium at a Time
As a kid, like many other kids, I was fascinated by time travel. And perplexed. If I could go back …
Lakes Basin, Sierra Nevada, CA
Besides reading and pondering on the human history that got us here, I sometimes wander the really deep history — …
1913: Seeds of Conflict in Palestine
1913: Seeds of Conflict, a 2014 PBS distributed documentary by Ben Loeterman, is a fine, short introduction to the little …