It was Saturday, Dec. 12, 1903, and a devastating typhoid fever epidemic had been leaving death at the doorstep of dozens of homes throughout the small communities of But...
It was 1918 and the dark clouds of World War I were raining bullets and shells over Europe — a conflict that would leave 20 million people dead over four years. Another m...
-- “Our Army at the Front” by Heywood Broun 1919
On Nov. 2, 1918, nine days before the end of the Great War, Nellie Geissenhainer of Zelienople, received a letter fr...
Butler Township took its name after Gen. Richard Butler, an Irish aristocrat who had distinguished himself with the Continental Army during the American Revolution, accor...
A soldier stands tall at attention in his Union uniform, buttons and buckle shining. He has a bayoneted musket at his side and a gaunt look on his face. Behind him, a han...
On Feb. 15, 1805, a few dozen German immigrants huddled together in a log house near the Connoquenessing Creek and signed papers creating Harmony, Pa.
They certainly didn...
We can easily imagine a young man looking out the porthole of his ship in Havana Harbor and admiring the Cuban sunset.
Friend Jenkins was a 32-year-old first lieutenant f...
The stone is weathered — taller and older than its neighbors. The man’s story passed from living memory long ago; it now hovers between written history and deep time. But...
By the summer of 1863, the American Civil War was largely seen as a war in two distinct theaters — the East and the West.
In the West, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who was comm...
