Andy Chandler

How do we keep memory alive? At that point where memory becomes history?  Late January in Indiana is a time that a friend from Texas refers to as “The Gray Zone.” While not a lot…

Photos courtesy Andy Chandler To do what’s expected of them.  It’s human nature to look at one’s own upbringing as the apex of virtue: to hold one’s beliefs and lofty morals in juxtaposition to the worst actions of a…

The Little Giants opened the home lacrosse season earlier this week with a 14-4 victory over Hanover College. Wabash was led in scoring by Evan Bair and Christian Dybedock who…

Photos and Story By Andy Chandler NORTH BEND, Ohio – Despite inclement weather and about an inch of snow falling over the course of three hours, the annual wreath laying…

To donate one’s body to science is something we take for granted in the realm of end-of-life decisions. However, lost in today’s world is a term seldom remembered: Resurrectionists. Today, we’d call them body snatchers. In the 1800s they were a business, and it was one incident…

When I ask about US Presidents who have ties to the Hoosier state, the obvious come to mind: Harrison 9, Harrison 23, Lincoln and Nixon. Tricky Dick Nixon? No, that was not…

“The People choose their president from among themselves and to the people that person will return.” Calvin Coolidge.   It seems unusual to start a column on U.S. History with one of its most recent…

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series of columns looking at American history from the perspective of a presidential historian and a museum archivist. “My family is American,…