While chatting with the author David Laskin I occasionally glanced over at my window, where a few ailing succulents liven up the gray apartment blocks on view outside. Laskin was doing the same, but ...

David Laskin is a Seattle based writer and author of the award-winning book, The Children’s Blizzard. In his latest work, The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, Laskin ...

American ancestors arrived in New York in the first decade of the 20th century, members of the last great wave of European emigration to sweep into America before Congress began imposing quotas in the ...

Almost memoirlike in its portrait of its specific time and place, “What Sammy Knew” — the first work of fiction by Seattle writer David Laskin (“The Children’s Blizzard”) — is both a coming-of-age ...

On our Monday, Dec. 2 program, author and journalist David Laskin discussed how he traced the three branches of his mother’s family for his book The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the ...

With Hanukkah upon us, the story of a Jewish family made and broken in the 20th century in David Laskin's "The Family." Rabbi Levi Shemtov, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, and Rabbi Abraham ...

David Laskin still jokes about what Tianlang Guan, his UA teammate, said to him at last year’s Arizona Intercollegiate tournament. “In the final round we were driving up on 17 and I missed the green a ...

America s tiny armed forces were a joke before its belated entry into World War I. A draft was swiftly implemented, as local history writer David Laskin relates in The Long Way Home: An American ...