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Katherine Johnson (1918-2020), Human Computer at NASA
Editor's Note: Read Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly for a truly inspiring book. Almost lost to history is the story of African American...
What is Propaganda?
Editor's Note: In 2014, I traveled to the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage near Cleveland, Ohio, to visit their exhibit, State of Deception: The...
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...
WWII Ended on the Deck of the USS Missouri, the Mighty...
Editor's Note: In 2019 while in Pearl Harbor, I toured Battleship USS Missouri, the WWII battleship where Japan surrendered to the Allies on Sept....
Jan. 15, 1929: Martin Luther King, Jr. born
Editor's note: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial opened in 2011. The site selected for the memorial near the Lincoln Memorial is a fitting...
May 8, 2020: 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (V-E) Day
David Hamilton is a WWII and D-Day veteran serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was one of the 20 Pathfinder pilots on D-Day.
London: Imperial War Museum Keeps History Alive
Editor's Note: In 2009 as I traveled to Normandy, France for the 65th anniversary of D-Day on June 6, our group stopped in London...
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...
Students Give Voice to Rare Manuscript Found at Auschwitz
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Professor Patricia Hall is a professor of music theory at the University of Michigan. Prof. Hall has visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum a...
D-Day Meteorologist Had Pressure Everywhere
Editor’s note: One of my favorites stories that I have written about people who served during World War II is my 2020 story about...