Beyond Granite: Pulling Together presents a dynamic new series of installations designed to create a more inclusive, equitable, and representative commemorative landscape on the National Mall. The Beyond Granite initiative is led by the Trust for the National Mall in partnership with the National Capital...
THE LAST BREATH before dawn. A moment of undefined edges slipping between dark and light, when it seems one might step through time and space merged. From the crest of Virginia’s Blue Ridge I look over what, at the close of night, appears to be a...
Dear Friends, Hot off the press! Counterpoint Press is just now releasing another edition of Trace with a new preface from me. I'm deeply grateful that Trace takes a second breath with this new edition! ...
Trace is featured in Rachel King's article "10 books on American history that actually reflect the United States" from July 4 in Fortune Magazine "It's often remarked that history is written by the winners. It's also an unmistakable fact that most history lessons taught in schools...
From Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy Published April 2020, Trinity University Press To my country: An old and perhaps unanswerable question has troubled me since childhood. Now it won’t let me rest. The Revolutionary War had entered its final years, still undecided, when J....
Welcome to the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s museum of science, art, and the human experience. Self, Made: Exploring You in a World of We was a summer-long exhibition inviting “visitors to explore how we form and perform identity through dozens of new interactive exhibit experiences, works of...
It's hard for me to believe that I'm included with 34 amazing scholars-writers like Jared Farmer, Gregg Mitman, Monica Martinez, and so many more. I'm still pinching myself! ...
Thank you, Justin Desmangles. I didn’t expect this. To be in the company of writers of such beautiful and powerful words is a gift; to be chosen and celebrated by the founders and board members of the Before Columbus Foundation on its 40th anniversary is a...
The openness and maturity of First Lady Michelle Obama's speech last week at the DNC National Convention stand in stark contrast to ignorant dismissive responses by certain pundits. But the truth remains. The White House, United States Capitol, and the nation's capital as Washington, District...
It's a great honor to be asked by editor Stephen Trimble & publisher Kirsten Johanna Allen to join three generations of voices speaking on behalf of Utah's wild lands and against a dangerous congressional bill (the Public Lands Initiative) in RED ROCK TESTIMONY: THREE GENERATIONS...