An excerpt from Soldier of Change: From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement (2014, Potomac Books) by Stephen Snyder-Hill. Chapter 4: Lost and Found in Iraq Besides my parents and brother back home I had no ties to anyone. … Continue reading Excerpt: Soldier of Change
An excerpt from Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought (JPS, 2015) edited by Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth, a finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards. From “Summary of the Science of Stem Cell Research” In the … Continue reading EXCERPT: Jews and Genes
An excerpt from Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties (February 2016) by George Gmelch. Chapter 3: Wearing Al Kaline’s Pants Although the distance from Duluth to Jamestown is just over seven hundred miles, it took us seven hours … Continue reading EXCERPT: Playing with Tigers
An excerpt from Rozelle: A Biography (October 2014) by Jerry Izenberg. Chapter 5: How Do You Tell Vince? … This is a country where gambling has always been a fever in the national blood. I remember as far back as when I was … Continue reading EXCERPT: Rozelle
An excerpt from Hero of the Crossing: How Anwar Sadat and the 1973 War Changed the World (January 2015, Potomac Books) by Thomas W. Lippman. Chapter 5 The Separate Peace Pressure Mounts on Sadat To the handful of American journalists who were giving … Continue reading EXCERPT: Hero of the Crossing
An excerpt from The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory (December 2015) edited and with an introduction by Bradley R. Clampitt. 1 Bitter Legacy The Battle Front Richard B. McCaslin Abraham Lincoln never read Clausewitz, but if he … Continue reading EXCERPT: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory
Quilts and Human Rights (August 2016), by Marsha MacDowell, Mary Worrall, Lynne Swanson, and Beth Donaldson, examines the societal impact of quiltmakers and their quilts in activism and global human rights awareness. With a foreword by Desmond Tutu and 105 color photographs, … Continue reading EXCERPT: Quilts and Human Rights
An excerpt from Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent (May 2015) by Susan C. Seymour. CHAPTER 3 Becoming an Anthropologist [Miss Du Bois’s] PhD examination was unquestionably one of the most brilliant I have ever attended. -A.L. Kroeber “Open vistas” would be a suitable metaphor … Continue reading EXCERPT: Cora Du Bois
An excerpt from Remembering America: How We Have Told Our Past (November 2015) by Lawrence R. Samuel. 5 WE THE PEOPLES 1990—1999 Historical memory is the key to self-identity, to seeing one’s place in the stream of time, and one’s connectedness … Continue reading EXCERPT: Remembering America
An excerpt from Akiva: Life, Legend, Legacy (Jewish Publication Society, October 2015) by Reuven Hammer. ONE Akiva’s Early Life From Temple Worship to Torah Study When the Great Revolt was over, much of Judea recovered swiftly. Landowners there had capitulated and were permitted … Continue reading Excerpt: Akiva
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