Letters were how people processed the world before text messages and emails condensed our thoughts into brief communication ...

Eighty years after World War II, the words of San Diego State’s heroes are brought back to life aboard the USS Midway.

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A group representing mayors of more than 1,000 U.S. cities has urged the Agriculture Department to use emergency funds to pay for food assistance benefits threatened by ...

Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Dozens of Democratic members of Congress have signed an open letter addressed to the ...

The Falls of Clyde, for which the non-profit group Friends of Falls of Clyde is trying to raise $3 million to restore, is seen in June 2014. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser welcomes all opinions. Want ...

History teaches us who we are. It grounds our identity in a past upon which we can grow and improve. Nations build their identity in much the same way as individuals. Both use words to create ...

One hundred years ago this year, the Chicago Cardinals were awarded the NFL Championship when the Pottsville (PA) Maroons, a town team of coal miners, were stripped of the title on a technicality of ...

Last week, we shared with you the letter sent from Newark to John S. Caton in Massachusetts by an unknown sender in March 1834. She drew a drawing of downtown Newark and an explanation of the markings ...

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