In 1961, during a summer job in Vienna, Austria, my father took pivotal advice from Father Theodore Hesburgh, now President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.
My Excellent Story Of Father Hesburgh, Vienna, The Congo, Notre Dame, Obama, And A Family Photo Album
In 1939, Indiana high school basketball star George Crowe was involved in a race-related controversy — not his own doing — that received widespread newspaper coverage at the time but has been lost in history since, buried so deeply that even Crowe himself, today, can’t recall there was ever any fuss. But there was. And it revealed the ahead-of-its-time greatness of Indiana.
This survey rocks conventional wisdom about who counts in American history: Who are the most famous Americans in history, excluding presidents and first ladies?