"Mr. Gorham, look at this!" A group of students crowds around a box of documents in the Harvard Schlesinger Library. WA Modern American History teacher Christopher Gorham makes his way to them to examine what they are so eager to show him. It is a 1945 citation of U.S. President Harry S. Truman awarding...

From hearing about her from students to digging through boxes himself to learn more about her, and even going through multiple libraries' archives, history teacher Christopher Gorham has almost finished his thirteen-month book-writing journey since he discovered the largely forgotten personality...