Dr. Steve Hoffbeck

A silk crisis came to America in the summer of 1941. That was the time when Japanese military-forces took total control over French Indochina, and the…

If you have ears to hear lively music, you know the almost-magnetic attraction of ragtime.Ragtime has syncopation. It has energy, it has off-beat notes,…

The ski industry in North Dakota has experienced many “ups and downs.” Currently, there are three ski-areas in the state – Huff Hills near Mandan;…

Emma Kelly was quite an adventurous person, for she was among the first women to endure the extreme conditions of the Alaskan-Klondike gold-rush in 1897.…

Every human society needs rules and laws. But always there will be lawbreakers who violate those laws. Crime brings punishment. In North Dakota, criminals…

On the night before D-Day in World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower visited with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division at a staging-base in…

It is a well-known fact that Dr. James Naismith invented the game of basketball in December of 1891 because his students in Massachusetts needed a way to…

A long time ago, countless multitudes of passenger pigeons migrated through the Red River Valley in search of food. The trees along the Red River were…

World War I transformed airplanes from a novelty into a deadly weapon. Pilots served as aerial scouts at first and then challenged enemy planes in…

We all know what a blizzard is, but we don’t know where the word came from. The National Weather Service nowadays refers to a blizzard event, which means…