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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

My interview with Holly Smith, Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Independent Review of Books, appeared online this week.  ICYMI, it is here and pasted below.  Further FYI, I’ll be speaking about…

Nearly 160 years ago this month, abolitionist John Brown led 18 men down a dark country road to Harpers Ferry, located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers…

By the time most of you who subscribe read this, I will have shared the stories of Osborne Perry Anderson, John Anthony Copeland, Shields Green, Lewis Sheridan Leary and Dangerfield…

This was posted Aug. 28, 2018 on the “Source of the Spring” website and is reprinted with permission. My thanks to Mike Diegel, whose site seeks to fill a community…