Last week's Erma Bombeck Writer's Workshop in Dayton, Ohio, celebrated 25 years of the conference. The University of Dayton held the first workshop in 2000 as a one-time event to commemorate the Bombeck family's gift of Erma's papers to her alma mater. It turns out once just wasn't enough, and ...
On April 4, 1951, a quiet stretch of land near Tioga became the birthplace of a transformation no one could fully imagine. When Amerada Petroleum struck oil at the Clarence Iverson #1 well, it didn’t just uncover energy — it launched an economic era that continues to shape North Dakota’s ...
In 1787, the Constitutional Convention was held to revise the Articles of Confederation. The delegates were deeply divided. Each delegate thought they held the plan for the best way forward. These men, our founding fathers, were ready to walk away, and let their egos get in the way of ...
There are moments in history when the noise of the world grows so loud that it drowns out the quiet truths we most need to hear. War dominates headlines. Moral confusion clouds judgment. Division becomes the language of public life. And in such moments, Good Friday and Resurrection ...
NATO members are not legally required to join any member's military operations that are not formally sanctioned by the alliance or not aimed at protecting the homelands of the membership. But they often do just that. Some NATO members joined the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq on the theory ...
There is something clarifying about being far from home. In Cape Town, South Africa, where the mountains meet the sea and the horizon feels endless, distance creates a kind of stillness that invites reflection. But even here, halfway across the world, America is never far away. It lives ...