by Tom DeWolf | Jan 20, 2009 | Appearances by Tom, History, Genealogy, Politics
By the time Prinny and I arrived from Virginia by train at L’Enfant Plaza, access to the National Mall via 7th Street was closed. The area was full. All access points between 7th and 14th were also closed. We finally entered the Mall near the Washington...
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 19, 2009 | Appearances by Tom, History, Genealogy, Politics
My friends know I’m pretty much obsessed with Bruce Springsteen. Lindi and I fell in love dancing to his music, went to Asbury Park, New Jersey on our honeymoon, and have been to more than two dozen live shows from the west coast to east, and from California to...
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 18, 2009 | Appearances by Tom, History, Genealogy, Politics
NOTE: I’ve posted photos from Obama’s Baltimore appearance on my Facebook page. For those of you who are my Facebook Friends, you already know how to access them. I’ll add more over the next few days–as I add posts to this blog–from the...
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 15, 2009 | Author Stuff, Writing, History, Genealogy
Beacon Broadside, an online venue for essays, news items, and dispatches from Beacon authors, advisors, friends, and staff, has just published the latest posting from Tom DeWolf, author of Inheriting the Trade. Read “A New President and New Hope for Healing Old...
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 9, 2009 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Trauma and Healing
One of the most painful aspects of confronting the legacy of slavery through outreach with the film Traces of the Trade and the book Inheriting the Trade is the fact that it isn’t just history we’re exposing. Slavery continues today. A question I often ask...
by Tom DeWolf | Dec 9, 2008 | History, Genealogy
On December 10, 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its passage was due in no small measure to the tireless efforts of a Polish Jew named Raphael Lemken who coined the word “genocide” (combining the Greek...
