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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Forgotten Expedition Of The Michigan Polar Bears, Laura Anthon, Jamie Breyfogle, Timothy Embertson, Natalie Weg
The Forgotten Expedition Of The Michigan Polar Bears, Laura Anthon, Jamie Breyfogle, Timothy Embertson, Natalie Weg
18th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (2019)
The Michigan Polar Bear expedition saw Allied forces leading a controversial excursion into Northern Russia during the concluding years of World War I. Despite thousands of soldiers being sent to interfere with the Russian Civil War, the Polar Bear Expedition has been lost from collective memory. We publicly inquired about the expedition, then combined this research with a found scholarly consensus about the lack of cognizance relating to the events. This revealed a disconnect, which led us to inquire as to the nature and origin of its historical omission. Our primary sources of research focused on the oral histories of …
Ordeal On The Ice, Geoffrey D. Reynolds
Ordeal On The Ice, Geoffrey D. Reynolds
Faculty Publications
Ordeal on the Ice is an article concerning the February 8, 1936 rescue of Clayton Brown by United States Coastguardsman Boatswain's Mate Earl Cunningham (1895-1936) that resulted in his own death and that of Claude Beardsley and the awarding of the Gold Lifesaving Medal to Cunningham posthumously.
100 Years Of Saving Lives, Geoffrey D. Reynolds
100 Years Of Saving Lives, Geoffrey D. Reynolds
Faculty Publications
100 Years of Saving Lives is an article that concerns the history of the United States Life-Saving Service and United States Coast Guard station at Charlevoix, Michigan, 1898-2004.