Memories are interesting things, for even when two people live through the same experience, their stories can often differ in many ways. We Were Not Orphans: Stories from the Waco State Home records the first-person accounts of dozens of former childhood residents of the Waco State Home, a Texas institution that provided care for children…
Category Archives: History
Unfamiliar Fishes
Sarah Vowell starts her treatise on American involvement in Hawaii by looking at the plate lunch ubiquitous to many restaurants on the islands. She looks at the glop of macaroni salad next to the shoyu chicken and reflects on the influx of Asian workers to man the sugar cane plantations, which were established by the…
The Long Way Home
Did you know that when the US entered the Great War, World War I, one-third of its population had been born overseas or had a parent who was an immigrant? In fact, at the height of the US deployment, nearly one in five American soldiers was foreign-born. These are the facts at the heart of…
It’s All Greek to Me
It’s All Greek to Me: From Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, How Ancient Greece Has Shaped Our World was everything I thought it would be and then a little bit more. Written by Charlotte Higgins, it has the feel of a professor in love with his or her subject about it. I was trying to…
Bending Toward the Sun
It’s just been in the past year that I became interested in the WWII era. To be honest, I shied away from it because it was so disturbing. However, I’ve recently endeavored to expand my reading horizons a bit, and have tackled some difficult material. Enter Bending Toward the Sun. This mother-daughter memoir is broken…
The Monuments Men
I love World War II history but I have to say that I’ve never paid much attention to the issue of preserving the art and culture of Europe (and the world) while Hitler made his mad dash for power. Enter The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History which…
Outwitting History
What is Yiddish? Does anyone else know? I looked it up after reading Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books. I had heard of Yiddish and knew it was spoken by Jews. I’ve read a few books where maybe a line or two is included. But I wasn’t…
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