Observations: The Fed
The Fed used to be isolated from insidious political interference... until now.
Allan Winkler
Observations: The Nuclear Age
Around 1993, when I published “Life Under a Cloud,” my history of the atomic age, I was marginally hopeful.
Observations – History
President Donald Trump has now attacked our perception of our nation’s past. As a citizen, I have been disturbed by the wholesale destruction he has wrought. But as a historian, I am even more troubled by his efforts to direct how we think about ourselves.
Observations: Kenya
"I first went to Kenya in 1980 and visited Nairobi National Park and climbed Mount Kenya for the first time."
Observations – People and place
"When I moved to Oxford in 1986, I found no such society here. But I was amused when people told me that the house I bought was the Anderson House."
Observations: Frances Perkins
"My family has been living in the funky town of Damariscotta, near the Pemaquid peninsula. And today, like last year, we visited the homesite of Frances Perkins, secretary of labor for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s entire tenure as president."
Reflections: Newspapers and me
Allan Winkler has been involved with newspapers and local news since he was young.