Editor: Most Americans probably never heard of Martin Niemöller. Niemöller was a Lutheran pastor who was a citizen of Germany before, during, and after World War II. Initially he supported the ...

Michael Herman (letters, December 3) obviously did not spend fourth grade in a California public elementary school as I did (1957-58), or he would not be asserting that the truth about Hernando Cortez ...

It's been said that you're never too old to learn. Incumbent with that, I think it's always good to broaden one's horizon by visiting new places and experiencing other cultures. After my trip last ...

Are the lessons from Iraq so quickly forgotten? In that war, overconfidence in U.S. technological superiority and arrogance at the beginning of the war — remember Don Rumsfeld’s gleeful “shock and awe ...

A best-selling book in 1986 by author and minister Robert Fulghum, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” was a collection of short essays that showed how the lessons we were taught in ...

As a young boy, I spent a fair amount of time in the wilds of Indiana in the company of older men. I was in awe of their experiences, but I had my suspicions that some of their stories stretched the ...

Vietnamese American women hold flags as they attend the 50th anniversary commemoration ceremony of the Fall of Saigon, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The Honolulu ...