On a September morning in 1987, Walter Hensley walked his fence line the way he did every Sunday, checking for breaks, looking for loose posts, making sure his 60 head...
In the spring of 1962, a seed company representative named Howard Mills drove his Chevrolet down a gravel road in Marshall County, Iowa, looking for the last hold out. Every...
On the morning of September 17th, 1944, at 06:15, Captain George Jones crouched behind a coral outcrop on the beaches of Pleu, watching his Marines fall one by one to...
On a Thursday afternoon in July of 1975, Ray Hollister was underneath a John Deere 4020 draining the oil when Dale Vincent’s shoes appeared beside the creeper. Hollister, my office...
In the spring of 1969, Harold Finch drove his pickup truck down a gravel road in Clayton County, Iowa, and parked at the edge of what locals called the most...
On a gray Saturday morning in October of 1968, about 40 people gathered at the old Hendricks farm in Clayton County, Iowa for an estate auction. Albert Hendrickx had died...
On a Saturday morning in April of 1971, Martin Cole walked into the feed store in Lancaster County, Nebraska, and bought something that made the clerk raise an eyebrow. Corn...
In the high-stakes world of international basketball, messages are rarely delivered softly. They are usually shouted over the deafening roar of arena crowds, blasted through the microphones of post-game press...
There is an undeniable, glaring issue currently casting a heavy shadow over USA Basketball, and the recent matchup against Italy brought it directly into the unforgiving light of the global...
At 6:07 a.m. on April 16th, 1945, Commander Frederick Beckton stood on the bridge of the USS Lafy at radar picket station number one, watching 22 Japanese aircraft appear as...