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Memorial Day is an appropriate time “to remember those who have served our nation and now lie in perpetual honor,” said Todd B. McCaffrey, secretary of the South Carolina Department

PENDLETON — Since the first major migration to Oregon in 1843, Oregon Trail ruts have become the growing fascination of thousands of historians, authors, teachers, and students across the nation.

Some stories are so precious and painful that their caretakers shield them. Even after several years of research, Shannon Hudson and Vicke Swisher-Hudson could not unearth most of the stories about …

New fiction, poetry, and nonfiction book titles from small, independent, and university presses received at NewPages.com. Great reading!

The rapid financialization of nature is promoting a Great Expropriation of the global commons and the dispossession of humanity on an unprecedented scale.

IMAGINE you are a young woman scientist reaching pre-eminence in your field and then along come several interruptions in the form of a husband and…

DAVE MOSIER/ independent editor Although it is a pile of rubble now, the Home Guards Temple Building was one of the city’s most luxurious structures when completed in 1906. While not as old as some downtown buildings that date to the late 1800s, its 114-year existence lasted far longer than the organization that built it. The Home Guards Temple building in its heyday as one of Van Wert’s premier downtown buildings. archival photos The Home Guards of America was the brainchild of Dr. George...