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The Ultimate Protest
Description Acclaim Table Of Contents The Ultimate Protest: Malcolm W. Browne, Thich Quang Duc, and the News Photograph That Stunned the World examines how the most unlikely of war correspondents, Malcolm W. Browne, became the only Western reporter to capture Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc's horrific self-immolation on June 11, 1963.
Richard Tregaskis
Description Table Of Contents In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis.
Richard Tregaskis
Description Acclaim Table Of Contents In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis.
Five Best: Tales of World War II Combat
1. “It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let one another down, or that they could be responsible for diminishing the bright reputation of the corps. . . .
Richard Tregaskis Reported from "The Road to Tokyo"
by Ray E. Boomhower Ray E. Boomhower is senior editor at the Indiana Historical Society Press, where he edits the popular history magazine Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. A former newspaper reporter, Boomhower has written extensively on World War II media history, including biographies of such noted war correspondents as Scripps-Howard columnist Ernie Pyle and Time magazine reporter Robert L. Sherrod.
Richard Tregaskis Reported from "The Road to Tokyo"
Saturday Evening Post Reporter Richard Tregaskis (r) discusses preflight instructions with a Navy torpedo bomber crew aboard USS Ticonderoga, 1945.
Creating a Classic of Military Literature
By Ray E. Boomhower | In the summer of 1942, during the first seven weeks of fierce fighting between U.S. Marines and the Japanese on Guadalcanal, an island in the Solomons, the Americans were watched over by a young correspondent from the International News Service, Richard Tregaskis. In his pockets he carried notebooks, on which he wrote key details about the brutal conditions faced by the Marines in this first major combat offensive in the Pacific theater.
Writing a Classic: Richard Tregaskis and "Guadalcanal Diary"
11/7/2021 Historians/History tags: World War II, film, Guadalcanal, War Reporting by Ray E. Boomhower Ray E. Boomhower is senior editor at the Indiana Historical Society Press, where he edits the popular history magazine Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. A former newspaper reporter, Boomhower has written extensively on World War II media history, including biographies of such noted war correspondents as Scripps-Howard columnist Ernie Pyle and Time magazine reporter Robert L. Sherrod.
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland'
As a child growing up in Indianapolis during the 1920s, John Bartlow Martin, later a noted freelance writer and political speechwriter, endured an unhappy childhood filled with family tragedies and setbacks, describing his Brookside Avenue home as living on “a mean street in a mean city.” One stark scene he retained into adulthood was the chilling memory of watching as a “seemingly endless parade of robed and hooded Klansmen marching around Monument Circle in Indianapolis in dead silence.”...
“. . . to tame the savageness of man”
By Ray E. Boomhower It was not what he expected. When William “Bill” Crawford, a 32-year-old U.S Navy veteran active in the Indianapolis anti-Vietnam War movement, came to the outdoor rally at Seventeenth and Broadway Streets the evening of Thursday, April 4, 1968, he had expected to hear more about America’s involvement in the conflict from one of its outspoken critics, U.S. Senator Robert F.
New books chronicle exceptional Hoosiers, deserted places
One of the earliest Johnson County casualties during World War II was Norman H. Vandivier. The Franklin resident was a Navy pilot, flying off the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. Vandivier’s plane went down in the Pacific during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. His story is among those featured in “To Be Hoosiers: Historic Stories of Character & Fortitude” by Ray E. Boomhower. The book includes chapters on a variety of Hoosiers.
To Be Hoosiers: Historic Stories of Character & Fortitude by Ray E. Boomhower | The History Press Books
A native Hoosier and former newspaper reporter, Ray E. Boomhower has worked at the Indiana Historical Society since 1987, serving as editor of the society's quarterly popular history magazine, Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, since 1999. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the nineteenth state, including biographies of such notable Hoosiers as Benjamin Harrison, Gus Grissom, Ernie Pyle, Lew Wallace, May Wright Sewall, John Bartlow Martin, Jim Jontz and Alex Vraciu.
To Be Hoosiers: Historic Stories of Character and Fortitude
To Be Hoosiers (Paperback) Historic Stories of Character and Fortitude By Ray E. Boomhower History Press, 9781467145404, 192pp. Publication Date: February 3, 2020 List Price: 23.99* * Individual store prices may vary. Description Since Indiana joined the Union in 1816, residents and visitors alike have pondered the essential question: "What is a Hoosier?" The final answer may never be determined, but there are, at least, ways to understand the Hoosier character.
Michigan War Studies Review
7 Dec. 2018 Review by Thomas G. Palaima, The University of Texas–Austin By Ray E. Boomhower Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. 242. ISBN 978–0–253–03036–8. Dispatches from the Pacific is, strictly speaking, a study of the career of World War II correspondent Robert Sherrod (1909–94).
Meet the Author - Ray E. Boomhower
Submitted by villagelights on Fri, 03/08/2019 - 4:53pm Ray E. Boomhower, senior editor of the Indiana Historical Society Press, will be in the front of the store signing his latest book for younger readers, Mr. President: A Life of Benjamin Harrison.
10 Books Every Hoosier Should Have Read by Now
Today on the 199th anniversary of Indiana becoming a state, we are pleased to announce a new blog series to celebrate our state's literary heritage for the bicentennial next year. The Indiana Bicentennial Bookshelf series will feature our regional authors blogging about their favorite Indiana writers and books. This series was inspired in part by the Next Indiana Bookshelf, a program created by the Indiana Humanities and the Indiana Center for the Book.
50 Years Later: Looking Back To 1968 And The Civil Rights Era
1968 was a consequential year that saw the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy. Disagreements over the Vietnam War fractured the Democratic National Convention, while thousands of anti-war protesters battled with Chicago police outside the convention doors. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed, prohibiting the discrimination in housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex.
The Reporter Who Helped Persuade FDR to Tell the Truth About War
Betio, part of the Tarawa Atoll, is a small, bird-shaped island along the equator in the central Pacific. Early in the morning on November 20, 1943, elements of the Second Marine Division boarded tracked landing vehicles (“amtracs”) and headed for Betio’s beaches. As part of an operation codenamed Galvanic, the Marines hoped to clear the heavily defended island of Japanese forces under the command of Rear Admiral Keiji Shibasaki and capture its vital airfield.
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