In 1954, nice girls kept their virtue intact. If they didn't and got pregnant, their families and society at large could be cruel. Booth Memorial Hospitals, run by the Salvation Army, stretched across the country and abroad, homes and hospitals for pregnant women who needed a safe haven. Mary and Kenny, both graduate students at the University of Iowa, live together for almost three years, sizzling in their attraction to each other. Mary is pursuing a Ph.D. in Victorian literature, and Kenny is a top physics student, eventually a research assistant to James Van Allen, an early space pioneer....

The Jade Locket and the Red Star: An Untold History of the Invasion of Okinawa and Why Korea Is Now Two Countries Instead of One by Joan Uda Few people know that North Korea and South Korea were a single nation until July 1945 as WWII was ending in the Pacific. That was when an American committee, to prevent Joseph Stalin's Red Army from taking all of Korea, drew a line at the 38th Parallel separating the north from the south. In early 1946 the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Commission was formed, to work with the U.S.S.R. to find a way to reunite North and South Korea under a single government. My...