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WWII Fighter Pilot Chances Death in Japanese Skies and Later Becomes Local Leader

Anna Ebersole and her husband, Bill, settle into chairs along their dining table, freshly clear of newspaper and mail to provide a blank field for photo albums, commemorative military caps, a .50 caliber bullet, and other war souvenirs that reflect [...]

May 6, 2016 History, Journalism/Communications, Photo

What Happened When American States Tried Providing Tuition-Free College

Last March, the Federal Reserve reported student debt across the U.S. at about $1.2 trillion. Meanwhile, more than two-thirds of new alumni have debt, at an average of $35,000 per graduate. Such problems are hot issues in the current presidential race, [...]

May 2, 2016 History, Journalism/Communications

World War II Airman Readied Planes for D-Day, Other Major Operations

On Ponce de Leon Avenue in Lake City, Carlos Crews lives on a mini farm, complete with donkeys, goats, geese, chickens, ducks, oranges, lemons and alligators, if you count the one that once snuck into the pond. Crews has owned [...]

March 17, 2016 History, Journalism/Communications, Photo

Prejudice Holds Tuskegee Airman Back, But Not from His Wings or Forever

Lt. Col. Phelps. Perhaps the figure is an allegory for the discrimination that black soldiers went through during World War II. Or the struggles, past and present, that all black Americans are born into. Or the uphill battle that is [...]

March 13, 2016 History, Journalism/Communications, Photo

One of Marines’ First Women Helped Pave Way for Military Acceptance

It’s 1942, or maybe early 1943, and in the basement of the Department of the Treasury in Washington D.C., June Whitehurst can’t help but stare at an unfashionable older woman walking toward her. The hair, the cotton hose, the dress, [...]

March 9, 2016 History, Journalism/Communications, Photo

The Troubling History of ‘Physical Descriptions’ of Women in the News

In December 1944, the Associated Press informed people around the world that student Gloria Jeanne Heller had been forced out of Louisiana State University after distributing a leaflet that “advocated free love,” as then-LSU President William Hatcher put it. [...]

March 8, 2016 History, Journalism/Communications