catapult magazine

Items tagged history

• Icons and alphabets

  An image on the wall tells several stories simultaneously.

• Hemingway in Cubero

  The short tale of a literary stop on a Route 66 road trip.

• Grant’s recommendations 6.13.08

  Two documentaries, one about soldiers returning from Iraq and one about the history of jazz.

• Somebody’s lost his wig

  Looking at where the U.S. has been can help guide where the country is going.

• Kirstin’s recommendations 7.11.08

  Young adult fiction about race and the abuse of power and classic music from Louis Jordan and Patsy Cline, two of the most influential U.S. artists in the 20th century.

• This was not always the case

  A letter to future offspring in the wake of a U.S. election.

• Kirstin’s recommendations 12.19.08

  Two historically-rooted fictions-a film about arms dealing and a novel about a Sudanese refugee-explore the lives of outsiders.

• Half a library

  A list-in-progress of formative collections.

• Ten places I want to visit (or re-visit without my children)

  An imaginative world tour through several historical sites with a surprise ending.

• In defense of my generation

  A response to the charges of relativism that get lobbed across philosophical dividing lines.

• Characters to love

  A review of the novel The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.

• Love, love, love…doo doo doo-doo-doo!

  A written tour of an imaginary musical.

• Peas from a can

  A review of the 1947 young adult novel Judy's Journey by Lois Lenski, which chronicles the invisible history of migrant workers.

• A common thread

  On the beauty of choosing the "by hand" way, while honoring the divine purposes of all human activity.

• Promised land gone

  Warning: asking long-time neighbors about family history might surprise you.

• The impossibility of the nice Christian guy

  A prophetic history lesson in gendered images of Christianity.

• A recall for arms

  A review of Armageddon in Retrospecti, Kurt Vonnegut's posthumously published collection of short stories and other bits.

• A wonderful life

  On family rituals as occasions to pass down heirloom memories of joy and sorrow.

• Ten things we imagine at Huss School

  Modest proposals for the future life of 22,000 square feet and four acres.

• Ten odd and wondrous things our family has seen this year within a block of our house

  Under the influence of urban naturalism, an inner-city neighborhood can be a wonder-full place.

• Popularity contest

  Examining the notion of popular culture in a segregated society.

• Freely given

  Thoughts on the question of (not) registering for gifts.

• The wedding planner

  Sorting out the essentials and non-essentials of the ceremony.

• The presence of the past

  On how war imposes its memory long after the ceasefire.

• Preaching as storytelling

  Good news for those who have never been able to "get anything out of" the Bible.

• Page turning and the illusion of permanence

  A defense of the book and, above all, the living Word.

• A kindled imagination

  How a book loyalist came to appreciate the company of an e-reader.

• Sense memory

  A partial history told in sight, sound, taste and touch.

• Oxford pilgrimage

  Notes from a journey to honor history, libraries, books and writers.

• From simple to sacred

  An unexpected gift serves as a reminder of the sacrament in each moment.