Book Review — Our Story of Eagle Woman, Sacagawea: They Got It Wrong
Thursday, February 23 2023
Out Story of Eagle Woman, Sacagawea: They Got it Wrong. By Gerard Baker, Calvin Grinnell, Bernard Fox, Carol Fredericks Newman, and Wanda Fox Sheppard. The Paragon Agency, 2021.…
- Published in Books
To Be or Not To Be On I-94
Friday, February 17 2023
Bismarck, N.D. — I was having a conversation about death and the afterlife with a friend the other day. The question: is death the end — oblivion and complete disintegration — or is it the portal to something else? And if something else, what does that something else entail?
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
32,000 Feet Over the Pine Ridge
Friday, February 10 2023
EDWARDS, Colo. — I flew from Bismarck, N.D., to Denver the other day to give a lecture. After the usual delays, the plane left Bismarck at about 10:30 a.m.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Jefferson and Marshall: Two Very Different Virginians
Saturday, February 04 2023
John Marshall’s service with George Washington at Valley Forge helped shape his very different view of America’s new republic than that of Thomas Jefferson.
- Published in Features
Missing McCullough and a Rich Immersion in the Humanities
Tuesday, August 23 2022
BISMARCK, N.D. — The death of David McCullough on Aug. 7, 2022, at the age of 89 is a terrible loss. It seems almost fitting that as the American republic totters near the edge of the abyss, our most civil of public historians has taken his exit.…
- Published in Dispatches from the Road