“We have now three saints in the national calendar - Washington - Lincoln - Garfield.” I’ll let James Garfield’s biography on whitehouse.gov provide some of the basic details about his life. Garfield was the last U.S. president to be born in a log cabin. “He was born in ...
Everyone talks about Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, etc. when they talk about presidents. No one ever talks about Garfield, Harrison, Arthur or Fillmore. Now there are certainly reasons for that but in many ways I find the obscure presidents more interesting than the ones ...
A National Archives list of men killed during the Korean War by Pennsylvania county was, at a minimum, incomplete. Since publishing a story on the men included on that list Memorial Day weekend, I’ve since heard from two family members who have identified two additional county men who were ...
It seems counter to our modern sensibilities that an act of Congress would cause public meetings, establishing committees and strong public statements in Warren County today. Such was the case in the fall and winter of 1850. The issue was one that had plagued the country since before its ...
Once a generation, there’s a story that dominates the headlines for weeks at a time. For my generation, that was Sept. 11. For the generations before me, it was Pearl Harbor, JFK or the Challenger disaster. In our echo chamber-filled 24/7 news cycle, it’s almost impossible to ...
John Adams once called the vice presidency “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.” But in a little over five months, we’ll go to the polls to pick electors that will pick the next one. It’s a nebulous office. It ...
