Ray E. Boomhower's Books

The knock on the door of the American teacher’s home came a few days after 80,000 North Vietnamese Army forces and their Viet Cong allies st...

In the early afternoon of December 4, 1915, a crowd estimated at anywhere from 3,000 to 15,000 braved the brisk weather at a pier in Hoboken...

In the fall of 1930 a staff member of the Smithsonian Institution, Frank Setzler, assistant curator for archaeology, ran across a visitor fr...

The fall of 1914 was a bloody one in Europe. The British and German were winding down the First Battle of Ypres and would soon dig in to beg...

As a teenager growing up in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Edward E. Breen, and many other citizens of the town, were attracted to the downtown one day b...