A Time of Reckoning
I believe we are in a time of reckoning, both with our past and present. It’s long overdue. With much attention focused on 1619 — an anniversary to be marked…
Read MoreAnother World’s Fair: Just What America Needs–or Does It?
Could a World’s Fair put a smiley face on America? For much of our history, world’s fairs have done just that. During times of triumph – and especially of trial…
Read MoreThe First TV President
I liked Ike. Ike liked TV. Not FOX News. But network news programs and musical shows. Or so TV Guide magazine for Feb. 12, 1955 tells us. “The President is…
Read MoreD-Day 75 Years Later
In 1994, I had the honor and privilege of telling the story of the D-Day landing through the voices of veterans, then mostly in their seventies. Years later, in July…
Read More“Hazards Arising from Shortness of Life”
Back in 1975, I wrote a story for the Washington Post about a petition for legal fees filed by a lawyer for three Indian tribes with the U.S. Indian Claims…
Read MoreSharing a story from the past relevant to the present
Dear Reader, Some good news and a challenge: February was an amazingly busy month for FIVE FOR FREEDOM. I was honored to share the story of “The African American Soldiers…
Read MoreMLK Jr. Day, Black History Month and FIVE FOR FREEDOM
This weekend, we recall Martin Luther King, Jr. with a federal holiday signed into law in 1983, first observed three years later and, after some resistance, observed by all 50…
Read MoreThanksgiving: Pearl Harbor, 1941, and 77 Years On – ICYMI
I first published this post two years ago, for Thanksgiving — less than three weeks before the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, marking Dec. 7, 1941, forever,…
Read MorePittsburgh: Never Again? Just Words
It happened less than three weeks ago. But, despite another gun rampage in California, apocalyptic wildfires, midterm results and recounts — the tsunami of “breaking news” that has pushed it…
Read MoreForget about capital mayhem; it’s autumn in New York
WOODSTOCK, N.Y. – Life without cable news can be very therapeutic. Of course, we love the three Chris’s, Rachel and Lawrence, but a few nights without them, even in the…
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