By Tom Stiglich
Meade and Gettysburg
Actions of a great Pennsylvania general at the pivotal battle of the Civil War.
By Jeffery S. Prushankin
Thom Nickels: The AIDS epidemic in Philadelphia, forty years later
Looking back on the pandemic that decimated the gay community.
By Thom Nickels
David Reel: Senator Everett Dirksen, a largely forgotten civil rights champion
Dirksen’s efforts ion the Senate made the proposed Civil Rights Act of 1964 a bipartisan success.
By David Reel
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: Flag of our fathers
The flag flies for all of us, and those who came before us.
By Michael Thomas Leibrandt
Richard Koenig: Looking back at Normandy
Eighty years after D-Day, a son pieces together the story of a father who went onto Omaha Beach.
By Richard Koenig
Farthest North for the Stars and Stripes
“Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of nature in a spirit of humility.” —Sir Ernest Shackleton, polar explorer.
By Chris Gibbons
Thom Nickels: Swami Nostradamus Virato and the New Frontier
Philadelphia in the 1970s had some eccentric characters, none more so than Virato.
By Thom Nickels