I am a proud American who fully embraces the United States values, especially freedom of speech. I am also a refugee born and raised in Soviet Kazakhstan and later Uzbekistan. I lived among a Muslim …
On Sept. 11, 1777, at the Battle of Brandywine near the Birmingham meetinghouse, Marquis de Lafayette was wounded while trying to turn retreating American soldiers around to face the British advance. A British musket ball passed through his left leg below the knee.
At first, veterans from Doylestown Borough’s American Legion Post 210 thought a bill from the Central Bucks School District for use of a baseball field next to War Memorial Field was a …
Slate Hill Burial Ground in Lower Makefield is said to be the oldest cemetery in Bucks County, with interments dating to the 1690s. The oldest tombstone has 1698 inscribed on it and the last internment occurred in 1918.
In July 1776, Dr. William Shippen Jr. (1736-1808) was appointed chief physician of the Continental army hospital in New Jersey by George Washington. In October, he became director general of all …
Norval Reece, who worked with Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy during the 1960s on civil rights and anti-Vietnam marches and campaigns, will speak on “Why Activism in the …
There is a single act that would end the fighting in Gaza. In fact, this simple solution has been there for months now and should have been promulgated and encouraged by the world right from the …
Mary Sheridan Park in Lambertville is diminutive in size but rich in items of historic interest, from its 1840s vintage city jail, to its 1870 Civil War monument, to its often-overlooked Civil War naval cannon.
The Washington Crossing Chapter Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) awarded the SAR War Service Medal to compatriot Kevin Treiber of Yardley.
Seven-year-old Layla Leuthy Peck, riding aboard a Newtown fire truck escorted by police, delivered 100 cards on Dec 29 to World War II veteran Joseph Gagliardi in celebration of his 100th …
There is, for each of us, that time of day, hopefully, when we sit down with a pinch of time to burn, whether we’re too tired to do anything else or just need to wind down. I find myself surfing …
A local couple and Upper Makefield officials have teamed up to preserve an important piece of American history.
In 1752, at the intersection of today’s Old York Road (Rt. 263) and Durham Road (Rt. 413), Henry Jamison opened a tavern known as “Jamison’s,” a stop on the stagecoach …
Bucks County Community College, which has been responding to residents’ educational needs since its founding nearly 60 years ago, introduces History of the Holocaust, a three-credit course offered …
The New Hope Historical Society will present a walking tour on Dec. 17 that will trace the footsteps of George Washington and his army through New Hope. Historical Society past-president and current …
Neither rain nor fog prevented reenactors from traversing the Delaware River at Washington’s Crossing on Sunday, the first of two planned crossings. The second takes place on Christmas Day to commemorate General George Washington’s famous 1776 trip across the icy river …
Dan Seeger, Quaker activist and writer, will speak on “The U.S. Constitution and the Quaker Quest for a New Jerusalem” at the Newtown Quaker Meetinghouse, 219 Court St., at 9:45 a.m. Sunday, Dec. …
Korean War veterans, family members of those who died in the war, local leaders and consuls from the Republics of Korea Saturday to mark the anniversary of the war's end.
A service will be conducted at the Bucks County Korean War Memorial in Doylestown Saturday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the 1953 armistice.The armistice and ceasefire ended three years of …
