"In 1950, a group of African American workers at the Studebaker factory in South Bend met in secret. Their mission was to build homes away from the factories and slums where they were forced to live. They came from the South to make a better life for themselves and their children, but they found Jim Crow in the North as well. The meeting gave birth to Better Homes of South Bend, and a triumph against the entrenched racism of the times took all their...

Originally published in 1956, this is a collection of chilling true stories of occurrences that have baffled the best minds of the world. They include:-The bullet that lay imbedded in a man and waited twenty years to kill him!-The thief who was in two places at the same time: hypnotized on a vaudeville stage and at the scene of his own crime.-The defenseless, besieged town that won a great victory without firing a single shot.-The man who was horribly...

In the early 20th century, South Bend, Indiana's population more than tripled. Established industries like Studebaker and the Singer Sewing company rose to unprecedented heights of production, new businesses took root, andimmigrants flooded into the area. Photo postcards, originally a quick and inexpensive form of communication, became key documents of South Bend's growth, recording events,businesses, landmarks, and people. Through nearly 200 vintage...

Detective Phil Knight teams up with his brother, Notre Dame professor Roger Knight, to investigate the theft of some valuable artifacts and the killing of a researcher, crimes that may be linked to a nineteenth-century theologian.