[…] of Instruction at SOWELA Technical Community College, shares insights from his extensive background in English and Creative Writing. With a Ph.D. from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and multiple teaching experiences, Rather brings […]
[…] appreciation for the challenges, hazards, and vicissitudes of traversing rivers and oceans in the nineteenth century. Sonne’s writing style is compact and vivid. He is particularly effective in narrating some of the classic episodes […]
What is this human intimacy, this condition that human beings seek “at every stage of life .. . as urgently as we seek food and drink . . . this need so powerful that we…
[…] of his classic biography of Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of God, Son of Thunder has received mixed reviews, his exhaustive research and journalistic style still make it an attractive study. Destined also to have […]
[…] in the hands of mere mortals. So it may not be surprising that our president at this writing is so openly enamored of apocalyptic politics. But I suspect that previous presidents and Soviet party […]
[…] brings us up against this reality, this simple basic fact: Before there can be good or evil, service or harm, lamenting or rejoicing, there must be life. About Considering Consider is the word the […]
Perhaps the Roman historian Tacitus put it as well as anyone when he ‘wrote that “history’s highest function” is “to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as…
[…] sense could be described as “literature”—demonstrates the ubiquity of the device in the ancient Near East. Another paper of particular interest to me and presumably to the readers of DIA LOGUE, is the editors’ […]
[…] also get us beyond the almost meaningless maneuvers of the Boise or Malad “rings” that dominate the writing of early Idaho political history. Finally, Limbaugh adopts the standard view of anti-Mormonism in Idaho in […]
[…] a treatment of sex roles and sexuality in the Shaker, Mormon and Oneida communities, than a personal essay that uses these groups as a foil for Kern’s own present-day concerns. Although Religion and Sexuality […]