by MaxieJane Frazier | Jun 7, 2020 | Nonfiction
I end wars. When I arrive at bases and conflicts, my job is to help close them, move them, go underground. My military experiences travel the circumference of war, seldom intersecting the dangerous center of the bulls-eye target. My first duty station closed more than...
by Kermit Frazier | Mar 7, 2020 | Nonfiction
It’s six o’clock in the morning. A beautiful, mercifully cool summer Sunday morning. The final day of the three-day Stokes Folks Family Reunion. My father’s side of the family. Father’s mother’s side to be exact. Stokes to Ford to Frazier. I’m sitting in a gazebo in a...
by Danuta Hinc | Mar 7, 2020 | Nonfiction
As I was reading about the group of women in Handmaid’s Tale red robes and white bonnets who staged a pro-choice protest in the Texas senate this week on Monday, March 20th, I was thinking about the power of image. The group of women—channeling the characters in...
by John Philip Drury | Feb 7, 2020 | Nonfiction
1. So I found myself sitting on a bench, waiting in a wooden building at Fort Holabird, an Army base in Baltimore, Maryland. A corporal, looking glum, walked through the rows of new recruits who were still dressed in blue jeans and button-down shirts, raggedy shorts...
by Bob Shea | Jan 7, 2020 | Nonfiction
Fascist. Totalitarian. Authoritarian. These words continue to appear more frequently in American and international media, amplified by the looming US 2020 election. As with many socio-political terms, such as “Left”, “Right”, “Far-Left”, “Far-Right”, “Moderate”,...
by Kermit Frazier | Nov 7, 2019 | Nonfiction
The name “Ku Klux Klan” apparently derived from the Greek word “Kyklos,” from which comes the English word “circle.” Klan was added for the sake of alliteration. Founded after the Civil War, the KKK spearheaded resistance to Reconstruction. A branch was based in...
by Mark Stoneman | Nov 3, 2019 | Nonfiction
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.—General Robert E. Lee The day ambled on until it became night. The sun went down, but its heat remained, and we continued to swelter in the dark as we guarded the entrance to the small Iraqi village....
by Peter Balakian | May 9, 2019 | Nonfiction
I teach at a very good liberal arts college in the Northeast, and perhaps it’s one reason why I’ve been having conversations in the past few years with people I know and don’t know, in passing or in close conversation, in which I hear anger, disappointment, or...
by Peter Balakian | Mar 21, 2016 | Nonfiction
The Situation Room (ink and acrylic on paper 36”x 36”)Mary Behrens When I first picked up President Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father, in 2008 when the President was on the campaign trail, I was prepared to find a memoir like those of many public...
by Alex Vernon | Aug 11, 2015 | Nonfiction
On the 26th of May, in this fortieth anniversary year of the end of the war, I had the privilege of attending a rather singular art opening at the Vinh Moc tunnel complex in the Vinh Linh district of Quang Tri province, the district on the northern side of the 17th...
