Sledge Leads the Charge:

By Randy Mills | May 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Sledge Leads the Charge:

A Country Boy on a City Boy Basketball Team Some of the great Illinois high school basketball players sometimes get…

The 1968- 1969 Fairfield Mules

By Randy Mills | April 15, 2019 | Comments Off on The 1968- 1969 Fairfield Mules

One of southern Illinois’ most successful basketball teams you probably never heard of. Accounts from Illinois newspaper sports pages clearly…

Trojans!

By Randy Mills | April 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Trojans!

A Brief History of Some of the Best Bluford High School Basketball Teams and Scorers, 1950-1970 During the exciting, highly…

The Newell Letters

By Randy Mills | March 18, 2019 | Comments Off on The Newell Letters

The Story of a Waltonville Boy, Jimmy Newell, who traveled to the Big City in 1906, as Told through Family…

A Heartbreaking Loss: The Story of the 1942-1943 Waltonville Commandos

By Randy Mills | March 4, 2019 | Comments Off on A Heartbreaking Loss: The Story of the 1942-1943 Waltonville Commandos

While my book, An Almost Perfect Season, primarily features Bluford basketball teams, the book also give ample space to many…

Southern Illinois’ Elegant Elephant: The Guy Lee Turner Story

By Randy Mills | February 18, 2019 | Comments Off on Southern Illinois’ Elegant Elephant: The Guy Lee Turner Story

In the book An Almost Perfect Season: A Father and Son and a Golden Age of Small Town High School…

Coming In the Fall of 2019

By Randy Mills | January 30, 2019 | Comments Off on Coming In the Fall of 2019

In the 1968-1969 Illinois high school basketball season, tiny Bluford High School, having just over a hundred students, reeled off…

On My Mother’s Birthday

By Randy Mills | December 3, 2018 | Comments Off on On My Mother’s Birthday

Today our sweet mother, Mary Alice Newell, would have been ninety-one. In the photo of her holding a small dog,…

Keynote at VU Veterans’ Day Program

By Randy Mills | November 12, 2018 | Comments Off on Keynote at VU Veterans’ Day Program

I had the special privilege of being the keynote speaker at Vincennes University’s Veterans’ Day program on Thursday, November 8th,…

Nobody is Going to Fight for Us

By Roxanne Mills | October 25, 2018 | Comments Off on Nobody is Going to Fight for Us

While Randy and I have written two books and several articles together about Hoosiers in combat, there was one story…

Dr. Randy Mills to Receive 2018 Dorothy Riker Hoosier Historian Award

By Andrea Turner | October 23, 2018 | Comments Off on Dr. Randy Mills to Receive 2018 Dorothy Riker Hoosier Historian Award

IHS Presents Oakland City University Professor with 2018 Dorothy Riker Hoosier Historian Award Oakland City, Ind.—Over more than three decades,…

Holiday Authors’ Fair

By Andrea Turner | October 22, 2018 | Comments Off on Holiday Authors’ Fair

Roxanne and I will be two of the featured authors at the Indiana Historical Society’s Holiday Authors’ Fair on December 1,…