Episodes Nearest to January 1, 1987 to December 31, 1987: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. Alma College Majors and Minors This episode looks at the Academic Programs that Alma College offered in its first 100 years of existance.
    date 1987map Gratiot, Michigantags Alma College, Education, Majors and Minors

    Alma College did not require students to have an academic major until the 1908-1909 school year. Prior to that year, students were only required to complete a general degree of study, such as a Bachelor of Arts or Sciences. The 1908-1909 catalog states, “in order to secure to the student the advantage of intensive work, he is required at the proper time to choose two subjects in which he must...

  2. Restrictions on Immigration grow in popularity.
    date July 1, 1986 to July 4, 1986map New York, New Yorktags Immigration, American Immigration, Work

     

    A joint New York Times and CBS News poll showed the United States to have contradictory feelings towards immigrants. Despite the U.S. being founded on immigration, and containing the world’s largest immigration population, those polled show an increasing percentage of natives disapproving further immigration. On a personal level, the American citizen was welcoming to...

  3. Fear Across the Atlantic:  Cholera’s Journey towards Washington D.C. in 1866
    date September, 1985 to 1985map District of Columbia, District of Columbiatags washington d.c., cholera

    In September of 1865, citizens of the city of Washington D.C. heard troubling tales from across the Atlantic of a rapidly westward spreading plague of Cholera.  The disease caused victims to experience extreme diarrhea until dehydration set in.  Without replenishment of fluids, victims were doomed causing around a 50% fatality rate.  Newspapers described it as a disease “so fatal…it begins...

  4. Bob MacHardy's Journey to Work
    date August 25, 1985map Orange, Floridatags Suburbanization, Urbanization, Obituary

    Bob MacHardy was a teacher at Winter Park High School from 1962 until his unexpected death in 1985. During that time, he and his wife and sons lived at 233 Pinewood Drive in southern Maitland. His journey to his job roughly six miles away was typical for a middle class educator in central Florida. A winding labyrinth of suburbs encircled both his house and the High School at which he worked, and...

  5. Air Nailer spreads though Building Industry
    date 1985map Lebanon, Pennsylvaniatags construction, Economy

    Brian Hoy, a life-long building contractor appreciated many new tools that entered into wide usage in the trade but he stated that “the air gun is one [tool] that helped increase production.” He adapted the air guns in the middle of the 1980s. The air nailers were around earlier, but were not widely used because they were not proven. Once the large companies started to make the nailers, and...

  6. The Birmingham District Rises in the Late 19th Century
    date December, 1989 to 1989map Jefferson, Alabamatags Birmingham, Alabama, Steel and Iron Industry

        According to an 1889 article found in the Chautauquan, a popular weekly news magazine, Birmingham, Alabama was the future of the iron and steel industry in America. Seated in Jefferson County, which is located in central Alabama, Birmingham was named after the industrious steel city of Birmingham, England. Also known as the “Magic City” and “Pittsburgh of the South”, Birmingham had...

  7. George H.W. Bush Announces Post-Cold War Strategies during Persian Gulf War
    date September 11, 1990map District of Columbia, District of Columbiatags War, Diplomacy/International

    In George H.W. Bush’s speech about Kuwait, he said “Recent events have surely proven that there is no substitute for American leadership.” By 1990, the Cold War had finally ended after forty years of conflict. George H.W. Bush came into office just before at the end of the Cold War. This had become a vital time in American foreign policy because the country no longer had to feel threatened...

  8. Vietnam Veteran's PTSD Leads to Suicide
    date December 2, 1983map Westchester, New Yorktags War, Health/Death

    Karl Lerchenmuller suffered from nightmares and flashbacks and would often disappear into the woods with his firearm for days at a time. Prior to his psychiatric ward suicide, Lerchenmuller had attempted to take his life four times. It was believed that the effects of the war could alter brain chemistry and allow for the onset of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Lerchenmuller resided in a...

  9. The story of the 1992 Alma College women's basketball NCAA Division III Championship season.
    date November, 1991 to March 24, 1992map Gratiot, Michigantags 1991-1992, Alma College Athletics, Women's Basketball, NCAA Div III Championship

    1992 Women’s Basketball National Championship

     

    Alma College has a history of excellence, both in the MIAA and against colleges around the nation. The pinnacle of Alma’s athletic excellence, however, is the National Championship that the women’s basketball team of 1992 brought back to Scotland U.S.A.

    Led by head coach Charlie Goffnett and assistant coach Mark Guyette,...

  10. The Oscar E. Remick Heritage Center for the Performing Arts
    date March, 1992 to 1992map Gratiot, Michigantags Alma College, Buildings - Heritage Cent, Performing Arts Center

    In the mid 1900’s roughly one-third of Alma College’s student body was involved in the performing arts either through music, dance, or theatre, and there was not enough space to house all of the college’s performing arts groups. The college was in desperate need of a performance center. Designs and drawings of such a center were first seen in a 1962 yearbook. However, the construction did...

  11. Los Angelinos React to the 1992 Riots
    date May, 1992map Los Angeles, Californiatags Reactions to Violence, Race Relations

     

     

    Los Angeles in 1992 was a vast, amorphous city, sliced-up into innumerable racial and ethnic enclaves, which a mass of interconnecting highways did little to integrate. The bloody race riots in the Spring of 1992 killed fifty-three people, injured thousands more, led to rape and widespread looting, and the destruction of buildings by vandalism and burning, altogether causing...

  12. Resurrecting Madison's Vision, 200 Years Later
    date May 20, 1992map District of Columbia, District of Columbiatags Constituition, Law, Politics, Government

    It would seem that James Madison had risen from the grave. Or at least one of his 12 original Constitutional amendments had been resuscitated. With near unanimity (Senate: 99-0; House: 414-3) Congress showed its support for the Twenty-Seventh Amendment on May 20,1992. The Amendment prohibits adjustments to Congressional salaries from taking effect before an election intercedes. Yet the vote was...

  13. A Siege in Waco
    date February 28, 1993 to April 19, 1993map Mclennan, Texastags Waco, Branch Davidians, Religion/Cults

                On February 28, 1993 Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearmd agents approached the compound of the Branch Davidians, a Protestant cult, in an attempt to serve a search warrant for illegal automatic weapons. What the ATF did not know was that the Davidians knew that they were coming. Having been tipped off by the indiscretion of a reporter, the Davidians armed themselves and prepared...

  14. At War With The Government
    date February 28, 1993 to April 19, 1993map Mclennan, Texastags David Koresh, Waco, Branch Davidians

    In 1959, a boy that would bring great controversy to a small town was brought into the world. Born to a 15-year-old single mother, David Koresh, who never knew his father, was raised by his grandparents. He was dyslexic and teased as a child and eventually dropped out of high school. He always showed an interest in the Bible, however, by age 12 he had memorized large parts of it. At age 20 he joined...

  15. The Bishop: Dr. Thomas Mar Makarios
    date 1981map Gratiot, Michigantags India, Religious Studies, Makarios, Bishop, Alma College

    As the Bishop of the American Diocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church, Thomas Mar Makarios was invited by Reverend David McDaniels to speak at Alma College after hearing him speak at a college in Ohio in 1981.  The Bishop was thought to be a perfect candidate to further the knowledge of the students as “a worldwide figure in an Orthodox tradition which [we], as Americans, know next to nothing about”...

  16. Anniversary march in Birmingham asks same questions
    date 1993map Jefferson, Alabamatags African American Sufferage, Birmingham, Alabama, Racism

    Years after civil rights pioneers, like Martin Luther King Jnr., walked the Birmingham streets protesting against segregation and for equal opportunity, influenced black Baptist preachers rewalked the march route in September 1995.  Raising awareness for a campaign to increase the black polling population nationwide; march leader Rev. Dr. Henry Lyons hoped black voters would help...

  17. Subcommittee formed to better manage aliens.
    date May 24, 1981map District of Columbia, District of Columbiatags Immigration, aliens, American Immigration

    The fourth wave of immigration to the United States, created by the Immigration Act of 1965, was due to the economic situations of émigrés. Seeking a better lifestyle, many immigrants were being admitted legally, though many also entered as illegal aliens. By the time Ronald Reagan entered the Oval Office in 1981, many immigration policies needed authorization by Congress. Moreover, since the...

  18. Ronald Reagan Signals a Change in US Policy Toward Central America
    date November 16, 1980map District of Columbia, District of Columbia, New York, New Yorktags Cold War, Ronald Reagan, Containment, International Relations

    Only days after Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential victory, an article in the New York Times explored how his conservative politics would change the nature of the conflicts in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. Alan Riding wrote “Reagan Impact Felt in Central America” as a broad overview of the actions and reactions that happened in the region due to anticipated changes in United...

  19. Cordless Tools spread in the Building Industry
    date 1980map Lebanon, Pennsylvaniatags Economy, construction

    In 1961, Black and Decker invented cordless power tools. Brian Hoy, who worked as a general contractor for over 30 years, found the convenience of these tools to be among the best technological changes in the industry especially for small jobs. He stated “cordless tools are one of the greatest tools to have come to the trade because of their eases of use.” One reason is because contractors do...

  20. Do You Believe in Miracles? – The Ultimate Cold War Faceoff
    date February 22, 1980map Essex, New Yorktags Cold War, Olympics

    “Do you believe in Miracles?” This was the question Sportscaster Al Michaels asked in Lake Placid, New York on February 22, 1980, seconds before the United States ice hockey team achieved victory against the reigning Soviet Squad in the XIII Olympic Winter Games.[1] The Soviet team had been a heavily favored, extremely experienced juggernaut. Team U.S.A. was a group of mostly college kids that...

  21. Californians Deal with the Fall Out of Proposition 187
    date November 8, 1994 to November 20, 1994map San Francisco, Californiatags Immigration, Controversial Legislation

    By the 1990s popular opinion had turned against the stream of immigrants that had begun in the early 1980s, and illegal ones in particular (who amplified all the traditional anti-immigrant accusations of undermining wages and straining public services). In California this resentment was fanned by local politicians, including Republican Governor Pete Wilson - who was staring electoral defeat in the...

  22. Vietnam Veteran Claims Agent Orange Illness
    date 1979map Jefferson, Louisianatags War, Health

    Upon returning home from Vietnam, Marine Lance Corporal Kenneth Pullen claimed that he had been a victim of Agent Orange poisoning. Since his honorable discharge in 1967, eight years before the war ended, Pullen suffered from a wide variety of illnesses. Doctors diagnosed him with having anything from jungle rot to trench foot, to Buerger’s Disease to arthritis. No doctor has been able to give...

  23. L.A. Racial Tensions Lead to Separation
    date 1995map Los Angeles, Californiatags Race-Relations, African-Americans

    In the Fall of 1995 the Los Angeles Times gave a hard look at Los Angeles’ ethnic gulf and noted how the city was balkanizing. The city of Los Angeles has long been a tense place in terms of race-relations.  The intermixing of different peoples set the stage for violent race riots in the early 1990s, which were kicked off when Rodney King was beat savagely in 1992 by four LAPD officers and the...

  24. Apple creates a business plan.
    date 1977map Santa Clara, Californiatags Apple logos, Apple marketing, Computers, Apple Computer, Inc, Apple

    Steve Job’s vision for Apple Computer was to sell to everyone, not just to computer engineers. He turned to some friends for advice about how to do that. Noah Bushnall was someone Jobs worked with at Atari, Inc. and Mike Markkula was someone from Intel. Apple was going to need a catchy logo. The Apple logo was made my Rob Wayne, a co-founder of Apple Computer. It was only used for the Apple I...

  25. Committing a Crime
    date March 16, 1977map Jefferson, Alabamatags Prostitution, Birmingham, Alabama, Seventies

    In 1977, a Jefferson county, Alabama man learned the price of being with a prostitute. According to police records, a man paid a prostitute twenty dollars and took the woman to a friend’s house. The next morning, the man woke up and discovered that the prostitute took all of his belongs, including his car, a suitcase full of clothes, his wallet, money, and the pants he was wearing.

    Learning...