Ann Morrow

Oct 18, 2023 | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Wilbur E. Garrett |Elizabeth Becker |Ann Morrow

Through the years, American Heritage has published many stories of courage on the front lines of war. In this issue, we offer, for the first time, profiles of female journalists who covered combat during the Vietnam war. During that conflict, women were largely barred from witnessing action at the front, and often faced a real challenge just getting to Southeast Asia.

Oct 18, 2023 | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Elizabeth Becker |Wilbur E. Garrett |Ann Morrow

Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Becker is a respected war correspondent and award-winning author, having worked for The New York Times, National Public Radio and the Washington Post. Among her books is You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War, from which the following was adapted. When they gave the twenty-minute warning, Catherine Leroy was waiting in her assigned seat on the left side of the C-130 cargo plane, the air thick with the heat of Vietnam’s dry season.

Sep 15, 2023 | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Ann Morrow |Wilbur E. Garrett |Elizabeth Becker

At the newly opened Kate Mullany House, a National Historic Site in Troy, New York, there is a display of the various flatirons that laundresses in the 19th century used in service to the city’s “collar and cuffs” industry. Among them is a coal-fired iron with a compartment for burning coals. As the coals cooled, they were inflamed with a bellows. What could go wrong? Made of solid iron and weighing up to 10 pounds, the irons are slightly sinister artifacts of “women’s work” as it once was.

May 4, 2023 | tallahassee.com | Ann Morrow

Ann MorrowSpecial to the Tallahassee DemocratIn 2019, local author and educator Susan Koehler debuted her first middle-grade novel, "Dahlia in Bloom." The story was set in the Appalachians during the Great Depression and told through the voice of 8-year-old Dahlia Harrell, the youngest of four children. The family had to leave their “hand-me-down” mountain home and their beloved grandfather and settle in Lothian Mill to begin life as tenant farmers.