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Posted by: Mark Hartsell
Basketball, unique among major sports, has a clear creation story: We know when, where, why and how the game was invented, and by whom. Now, some 125 years after the first game was played in a Massachusetts school gymnasium, we know something new: the sound of the creator’s voice. A researcher recently discovered in the Library …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Collections, History, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
A missing Air Crew Report, author Dennis Okerstrom says, provides plenty of facts about losses in air combat: type of aircraft, names and ranks of crew members, a flight plan. Those facts can’t, however, reveal war’s human dimension – what it’s like to actually get shot down in combat. “It cannot begin to convey the …
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Audiovisual, Capitol Hill, Collections, History, Researcher Stories, Veterans History Project