by Dr. Ross Porter | May 11, 2020 | Blog
Robert Smalls was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina. And at age 12, his master hired him out to business associates in Charleston where Smalls worked in a hotel, and later as a lamplighter. But his real love was the sea, so he found a way to work on the...
by Dr. Ross Porter | May 11, 2020 | Blog
Alaska Airline flight attendant Shelia Fedrick didn’t board the plane that fateful day in 2011 thinking she’d become a hero. But soon after the flight from Seattle to San Francisco took off, Fedrick noticed the young girl with dishevelled clothing and greasy-blonde...
by Dr. Ross Porter | May 11, 2020 | Blog
In the months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the involuntary internment of more than 110,000 men, women and children of Japanese heritage. Most Americans considered this a necessary measure to protect the United Sates...
by Dr. Ross Porter | Jun 6, 2018 | Blog
74 years ago today, more than 160,000 Allied soldiers stormed 50 miles of Normandy coastline, to strike a decisive blow for freedom. 60% of those men were killed or injured before they even reached the shore, and 10,000 would not live to see nightfall on June...
by Dr. Ross Porter | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog
Stetson Kennedy was a man of the South—a white man, from a well-to-do family, and a descendant of plantation-owning signers of the Declaration of Independence and Confederate officers. He could have easily hid snuggly in his comfort zone, and avoided the...
