In this episode I explore news articles during the Great Depression around the time of Thanksgiving from different cities in Southwest Michigan.

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In this episode I explore some early history of Albion, Michigan. I also cover early railroad history and a riot.

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In this episode, I explore an early history of Tekonsha, Michigan referring to a Calhoun County Directory from 1869-70.

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In this episode I cover some of the early history of the stagecoach roads, the early hotels, railroad and interurban in Marshall, Michigan.

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In this episode, I explore some of the early history of Galesburg, Michigan named after George L. Gale.

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In this episode, I explore the origins of some unusual street names in Battle Creek, Michigan. The information is taken from articles in a book published by Elizabeth Neumeyer entitled 'What's in a Name?'

To get a copy of the book, visit the Battle Creek Regional History Museum at 307 W Jackson St, Battle Creek, MI on weekends 10-4PM, or at the same address visit the Historical Society of Battle Creek archives on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12-4PM.

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In this episode I explore the history of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. It was the principle route for travelers coming from New York to Chicago, and it connected Lake Michigan with the East Coast.

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In this episode I explore the history of Interstate 94, and the Interstate Highway system. I-94 is unique as it is the only Interstate that has a numbeer not divisible by 5, and it is also the only one running West to East that connects with another country, Canada.

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In this episode, I explore the history of assassinations in America covering Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy and Charlie Kirk, along with several other cases of attempted assassinations.

I also discuss the changes I have observed as a historian with the American education system which has disconnected present day youth from understanding history.

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In this episode, I conclude the three part series on the story of Sarah Haviland.

In this final segment, I explore what happened to Sarah after she was sent to prison in 1966 at the Michigan State Prison in Jackson, Michigan. I also cover what her experience was, compared to other prisoners, and carry her story all the way through to her pardon by Governor Treadway Rich in 1896.

I also cover the research I conducted on where her three murdered children are buried, and what I was able to uncover on the lives of her surviving children.

I further discuss my two years of research on this story, which led to it being a major story in the book Victorian Southwest Michigan True Crime, which was published in 2024.

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