My name is Richard Lightner and I am a retired History Lecturer and Librarian living in Hawaii.

 

PointOfViewAndThings.com delivers varying information perhaps not known by the general public and even much of academia. The topics vary according to my interests at the time.

 

I have a BA in History from the University of California at Irvine, a MA in History from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and a Masters of Library and Information Studies also from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

 

My publications are, Hawaiian History: an annotated bibliography, which received an award from the American Library Association. For antiwar.com I wrote an article showing the less than peaceful views of then candidate Barack Obama.