In the history of the civil rights movement, March 7, 1965, is known as “Bloody Sunday.”
Quite often, small artifacts represent monumental heroism, and such is the case with Patty Reed’s doll...
While serving as the United States attorney for the Northern District of California in the 1970s, I read an old book—Genealogy of the Brownings in America, published in 1908—that claimed a relative of mine, Orville Hickman Browning, had served as secretary of the Interior and U.S. attorney general under President Andrew Johnson...
There are thousands of us. Children of World War II soldiers. Some of us are fortunate enough to know about his or her father’s military service; some are less fortunate. We knew very little...
On April 30, 1898, when Commodore George Dewey sailed his squadron of six small naval vessels into Manila Bay with orders to “sink or destroy the Spanish fleet,” there was likely little thought in the mind of the commodore or President William McKinley of initiating an empire...
The number 13 is considered unlucky by and for a lot of people, but 13 words saved the life of Col. John H. (Jack) Earle, USMC (Ret)...
For a time in the United States, segregation was part of our lives...
As I turned off Midvale Boulevard onto University Avenue I wondered if I would be greeted, as I had been so many nights before, by antiwar protesters, helicopters with searchlights, and the acrid smell of tear gas...
The recent passing of Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last surviving American veteran of the Great War, is an emphatic footnote to “The war to end all wars.”
On Oct. 8, 1862, my third great-grandfather, Taylor Brant Rezer, died at Camp Chase, Ohio, as a paroled Union soldier of the 29th Pennsylvania Volunteers. While awaiting exchange as a prisoner...