Sheila Mulrooney Eldred

Sheila Mulrooney Eldred is a freelance journalist based in Minneapolis. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, and Sahan Journal.

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WWII Naval Cadet Training

George H.W. Bush was among the cadets and Gerald Ford served as a coach in the intense war-time training camp that featured giant wheels, heavy sand bags and oversized balls.

When Did Americans Start Recycling?

More than a century ago, recycling wasn't a thing, but people did it instinctively.

Harry Truman and Universal Health Care

Truman felt the middle class was left out when it came to health care coverage and fought to institute a federal health plan paid for through a payroll tax.

A chicken farm in Australia. Such farms can be a source of avian influenza outbreaks.

Avian influenza has been sickening birds at least since the 1800s—and has been a factor in the emergence of human pandemics.

Skull of a man from ancient Egypt.

When a chemist discovered that carbon atoms could be used to date ancient remains, he devised a method that upended archaeology.