Calling up the Nineteenth Century to Understand our Own Times.  Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth, Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered and Tony Horowitz’s Spying on the South

Annette Gordon-Reed, and Barbara Kingsolver are writers grounded in history, science, and Tony Horowitz was a writer steeped in evidence, yet reading On Juneteenth, Unsheltered, and Spying on the South together, felt like a mystical retreat with three mediums,...
Never Again

Never Again

Never Again “While some nations vow never to forget, our American battle hasalways been over what we allow ourselves to remember.” — Wesley Lowery, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain,...