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General Famous for His One Word Reply – Nuts!
Editor's Note: While covering the 65th anniversary of D-Day from Normandy in 2009, our group visited the Ardennes Forest in Belgium near Bastogne where...
Rosie Flexes Her Muscle in Michigan in Riveting Rivalry with California
Editor's Note: I have had the honor of interviewing a few original "Rosies," women who went to work in factories during World War II....
Rosa Parks (1913-2005) – Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Editor's Note: In 2005, I went to the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit to attend a memorial to Rosa...
Glass: a Hot and Cool Combo of Art and Science
Editor's note: One of the hottest and coolest stories I have covered was my 2016 visit to the Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion...
The Henry Ford Museum Acquires the Rosa Parks Bus
Editor's note: In 2018, I asked to interview a curator at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan to learn how they acquired the...
Cornelia Fort (1919-1943): WAFS Pilot
Editor's Note: I first learned about Cornelia Fort in 2019 at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. Cornelia was in the air...
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...
Nice Young Ladies Do Fly
Editor's Note: In 2019, I traveled to Dayton, Ohio to interview Sarah Byrn Rickman, author of a series of books about the first female...
People of WWII: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Editor's Note: In 2009 while covering the 65th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France, our group toured Southwick House in England, located about five...
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...