October 1 holds deep meaning for our family. It is a day etched by both sorrow and joy. It is a day that reminds us of the immense cost...

Today is National Love Notes Day . It's "celebrated" annually on the same date. This year, it happens to fall on Friday. It set me to...

Today is Gold Star Mother's Day, a day to commemorate and honor all the mothers who paid the nation the highest honor of giving their...

I took this date in history as an occasion to read in its entirety George Washington's "Farewell Address," which was published in the...

This coming Wednesday, September 17, is Constitution Day , commemorating the day that document was signed in 1787. A major problem is...

As you well know if you've read this blog for any length of time, I'm a strong proponent of books, reading, libraries, and literacy....

Today, September 2, marks the eightieth anniversary of the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II. On this date in 1945,...

Andrew Carnegie's life is the stereotypical rags-to-riches-by-self-improvement story. He went from his first job as a bobbin boy in a...

Jeb Stuart, a major general of cavalry in the Confederate Army, had a score to settle. It might have seemed a little thing to most other...

It's probably a little-known detail, hardly worth noting, but water played a part in a lot of events that occurred on this date in...

Get out that stack of books in your tottering to-be-read pile, choose one, and get ready to celebrate. Tomorrow is National Book Lover's...

When the airmen were awakened at 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 1, 1943, had their breakfast, and attended their pre-flight briefing, the...

When I first began to enjoy reading, my grandparents were good about giving me some good books to read, feeding an appetite for the...

We often look at a few facts and quickly reach conclusions based on our assumptions about some of the missing facts. History provides...

I've been an avid baseball fan, specifically of the Atlanta Braves, since shortly after the team moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta in 1966....

Independence . The exercise of self-government; self-sufficiency. That was what the thirteen American colonies of Great Britain were...

I suppose I'm no different than most other men in that I don't enjoy "shopping" the way women do. I can't "browse," strolling leisurely...

When U.S., British, and Canadian troops stormed ashore on the various designated beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944, the 3rd Armored...

I just learned that today, June 13, is National Sewing Machine Day . Who makes up these momentous days of national commemoration?! I...

It's been 81 years now since the young American soldiers parachuted behind the German lines and stormed the beaches of Normandy, France....