Written by Larry McMurtry and Diana OssanaDirected by Yves Simoneau I was a late bloomer when it came to appreciating the western genre in films. The first story I ever truly enjoyed […]
Movie Review: Dead Man’s Walk – Real Heroes in the Real West
Movie Review: Eight Men Out – The Best Baseball Film Ever
Written by Eliot Asinof and John SaylesDirected by John Sayles The game of baseball back around 1919 was quite a bit different from the game we know now. There were the aesthetic […]
Movie Review: Dances With Wolves – One of the First Honest Portrayals of Native Americans in Film
Written by Michael BlakeDirected by Kevin Costner The story of the Native Americans as written by the movie industry over the last hundred years or so was mostly one of savagery where […]
Book Review: Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder – DeSmet is a Colorful Town!
When I was about nine, a friend of the family gave me my first Little House book. I was immediately captivated by the stories within and read them over and over through […]
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery by Ken Burns – Discover the Legacy of Lewis and Clark’s Expedition
I can’t remember exactly how much time was actually covered in history class about the journey of Lewis and Clark to explore the land purchased from Napoleon and France by President Thomas […]
And So It Goes
Yesterday I was driving around, doing the various errands that needed to be done, when this song came on Classic Rewind. I thought about the events this was chronicling It was a […]
Book Review: Hitler’s War: The War That Came Early Book 1 by Harry Turtledove – A Journey Through 1938
It’s hard sometimes to go back and review a book from a series when you’ve already read some of the books that follow it. It’s not just a matter of knowing what […]
Book Review: American Dreams by John Jakes
American Dreams is the sequel to Homeland, a novel in which John Jakes explores the immigrant experience in this country. In Homeland, young Paul Crown leaves Germany to seek a better life […]
Book Review: Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic – The Harsh Reality of Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange
My mother received a phone call the other day from an online friend of hers. Her husband, who had served in the Navy in Vietnam and been stationed on a boat patrolling […]
Book Review – American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold by Harry Turtledove – The Great Depression in Turtledove’s Alternate USA
Set during the 1920s and 1930s, this novel follows events begun in the novel How Few Remain, through The Great War series, and in the previous novel in this series, American Empire: […]
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