museON Articles

MuseON Articles

  1. Disease Detectives


    Infectious diseases are often in the news—new diseases emerge, old illnesses flare up again, and bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics.

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  2. Remember Me: Civil War Portraits


    If, as some have said, the Vietnam War was the first war to be seen on television, then the Civil War was the first American war that citizens on the home front could experience in photographs.

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  3. Kalamazoo's Municipal Election of 1912 - Socialism in One City


    Was it a political April Fools’ trick? That might have been the thinking of Kalamazoo’s political leaders when they awakened on the morning of April 2, 1912, the day after local elections were held.

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  4. The Goss and Darling General Store - Buy, Barter, or Sell8


    Like Meijer or Target or Walmart, the general store was the “superstore” of the 1840s. General stores served many purposes in frontier towns like Kalamazoo.

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  5. A Drumming Cadence of Brotherhood


    The rat-a-tat-tat of the snare drum, accompanied by the thundering beat of the bass drum, was all Kalamazoo’s Orcutt Post veterans of the Civil War needed when marching in local parades or rousing the men’s spirits at events and annual reunions.

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  6. Who are the real invaders of Mars?


    As midnight passes on December 31st , a red star rises over the eastern horizon. Each night thereafter, the star rises a few minutes earlier.

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  7. Transmissions from the past - Tintype Photography


    Barely more than a toddler, the young Robert Shimmin used to stand on a stool in a darkroom to watch the magic his father performed with light, lenses, film, and chemicals.

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  8. Charles E. Stuart Leads Kalamazoo's Own


    In 1861, Kalamazoo’s Charles E. Stuart organized an infantry unit that demonstrated how many Americans set aside their personal politics to support the Union during its greatest crisis.

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  9. Growing Pains Usher in Modernization


    Voters approved a city charter and elected Kalamazoo's first mayor in 1884 and by 1900, the city was truly a modern American city.

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  10. Scanning for Answers - Mummy Forensics


    Science has yielded significant clues, but some mysteries still surround the Kalamazoo Valley Museum's mummy.

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  11. Spectro-Chrome


    Proponents of the Spectro-Chrome believed that colored lenses and lights combined to promote healing.

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  12. What's In A Name - The Story of Titus Bronson


    The 160 acres we now know as downtown Kalamazoo was originally called Bronson and was purchased for $1.25 per acre.

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  13. Gibson Guitars - A Sensual Experience


    Come see and hear Mark Sahlgren's J-200 and feel the history, the living experience that is music made in Kalamazoo!

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