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The Wright Brothers Had Their Minds in the Sky, Not Their...
Editor's Note: Since the 2003 Centennial of Flight celebration, I have written many stories on the Wright brothers. In Dayton, multiple locations honor the...
April 14, 1865: President Lincoln assassinated
Editor's Note: From 2012 through 2015 as I prepared to cover various Civil War sesquicentennial events, the magnitude of the tragedy of President Lincoln's...
2019: Statue of Liberty Museum Opens
Editor's Note: As soon as I learned the new Statue of Liberty museum would be opening on May 16, 2019, I made plans to...
Locomotives and Autos Fueled 20th Century Growth
Editor's note: In 2013, I toured and wrote a story about Henry Ford's Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit where, in 1907, Ford designed and...
Take a Hike – Into a Cauldron!
Editor's Note: In 2015, I visited Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California. Its history is the history of the National Park Service because...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Shaw Memorial and Standing Lincoln Sculptor
Editor's Note: After visiting Boston a number of times and seeing the Shaw Memorial on Boston Common facing Beacon Street, I researched the memorial...
FDR Guided Nation During Great Depression and WWII
Editor's Note: In 1921 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) was 39 years old he contracted polio, a viral disease that causes paralysis. Paralyzed from...
From Battlefield to Healing Field
Editor's Note: In 2012 with plans in 2013 to cover the Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Gettysburg in July and the Gettysburg Address in...
Col. Charles Young, Buffalo Soldier: Have Confidence
Editor's note: In 2015, I learned about the new Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, a National Park Service (NPS) site established in 2013,...
Do NOT Take a Selfie with a Bison
Editor's note: In 2016, I learned about the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Prairie City, Iowa, located east of Des Moines and just...