by Norman West | Apr 17, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, War & Military
Most of us don’t remember the Spanish-American war. More of us remember Korea, more yet Vietnam, and who could forget Iraq? All different, yet similar in one respect. They were all unnecessary. None of them advanced America’s critical interests, none of them made...
by Howard Leighton | Mar 8, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Comics & Graphic Novels, History
Division to Unification in Imperial China: The Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty (220-907), by Jing Liu, is the second in a series of four planned comic book format presentations of the history of China. This particular installment focuses on two eras during this...
by Stephen Febick | Feb 16, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, Portland Publishers, Sponsored
In 1920, in the isolated Steens Mountain area of southeastern Oregon, a man named Ralph Grant buried his mother Martha K. L. Grant in the cold February ground. There were no funeral homes in the dense wilderness of the region during the time, and that was “even if one...
by Howard Leighton | Feb 13, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, War & Military
There are those of us old enough to remember The Swamp Fox, an 8 episode television series presented by Walt Disney about the courageous soldier and leader in America’s Revolutionary War, Francis Marion. This book, by John Oller, takes the romantic embellished...
by Seniye Groff | Jan 19, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, History, NW Author, NW Setting, Travel
History lovers, as well as architecture aficionados, will appreciate the research and stories presented in Timberline Lodge (Images of America). William Turner, the architect, was hired to design Timberline and he had integral influence in the building’s final...
by Sarah Hutchins | Jan 6, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Social Science
Thirty years ago, Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women by Kittredge Cherry was an insightful glimpse into Japanese language and sexism. Cherry breaks down the history and usage of 81 terms, sometimes bringing even more terms into the description. She...