After a long career with WQPT-PBS, Lora Adams has finally won her first regional Emmy Award. At the 47th-annual Mid-America Emmy ceremony in Branson, Mo., Adams won the 2023 best historical documentary trophy for “Snapshots: Your Dutch Friend,” a 14-minute film of how two young sisters — Juanita and Betty Wagner of Danville, Iowa — […]
On August 18th, a large flatbed truck delivered a symbol of the darkest moments of the 20th Century to the Danville Station Library and Museum in the Des Moines County
A piece of World War II’s dark history is on its way to Iowa. A rail car from the era in Germany that may have been used to transport Jews to concentration camps has been located in Moers, restored and loaded aboard a ship bound for Baltimore that’s expected to land today. After clearing customs, […]
Naomi Livesay worked on computations that formed the mathematical basis for implosion simulations. Despite her crucial role on the project, she is rarely mentioned as more than a footnote—until now
Floy Agnes Lee came to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1945 knowing nothing of the top secret work on the atomic bomb happening all around her—but she studied the blood of the researchers who did.