2+ week, 3+ day ago   (654+ words) “Terrible things are happening outside. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared... Everyone is scared.” Wait. What? Is this a description of what is currently…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (717+ words) My father, a Holocaust survivor who reached the United States in 1940 at age 29, never disclosed much about his life in Vienna or the time he spent afterward confined in Dachau and Buchenwald. What my sister and I did know was…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (864+ words) There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics. Thus posited Mark Twain, who attributed the origin of that scathing observation to 19th-century Jewish British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. The saying suggests that attempting to encapsulate some event or…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (322+ words) by Jim Bovard | Sep 1, 2026 The German city of Dresden post-bombing. Image Credit: Wikimedia September 1 is the anniversary of the start of World War II in Europe. On that date in 1939, Nazi Germany launched an invasion of Poland from the west…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1542+ words) In our family, August 15 was a bit of a conundrum. Having been born a mere two decades or so after Independence, in the post-Nehruvian era, I grew up in the throes of a fledgling nation that was battling poverty, disease,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (306+ words) In March 1783, Continental Army officers at Newburgh, New York, unpaid for months, began circulating a letter. Some wanted to march on Congress, or install George Washington as a military ruler, to force payment. When Washington learned of a meeting being…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (241+ words) The Battle of Medina Pleasanton Express  Martin Gonzales The Annual Battle of Medina Symposium was this past Saturday and it was once again a success This event takes months to plan and many moving parts to bring together IâÂ…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1070+ words) Published 5:30 am Saturday, August 22, 2026 This story is a part of our celebratory summer coverage of the 50th anniversary of Peace Arch News. You can find a new story every morning from Aug. 20 to Aug. 30. From the White Rock Pier and library…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (138+ words) Montgomery Independent Two very different visions of how the American Revolution might end were converging on New York Harbor 250 years ago. One was diplomatic, cautiously optimistic, and carried across the Atlantic in the person of Admiral Richard Howe. The other…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (165+ words) 50 years ago today fredericksburgstandard.com There’s over half a century difference in the number of years these two couples had been married. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Crenwelge, left, had been married 58 years, while Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Zener, at…...