The Butler Eagle first published this article on Sept. 13, 2021.
It was an event that shook the nation, an event whose effects are still rippling through our history...
More awareness of risks they take
The Butler Eagle first published this article on Sept. 11, 2002.
They swapped T-shirts, stories and grief last month in the empty s...
Albert Robertson was a high school senior when terrorists commandeered four American jets on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and took aim at four iconic American landmarks...
National September 11 Museum
Address: 180 Greenwich Street, New York, N.Y.
Phone: 212-312-8800
Open: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday through Monday
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Five years before “discovering” electricity and 29 years before signing the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin faced a conundrum.
He recognized that Philadelp...
Residents of Western Pennsylvania know the Allegheny River as a lovely location to enjoy nature, boating, strolling or biking along its length.
But more than 230 years ag...
The similarities are painfully obvious — two unprovoked early morning attacks that left thousands dead and a nation bowed but not broken.
The list of parallels between th...
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, i...
Despite its local reputation as an “affluent suburb” of Pittsburgh, Cranberry Township comes from humble beginnings — with explosive results.
“If you go back before the ’...
It is a somewhat curious fact that the United States’ most beautiful natural landscapes owe their existence to the Industrial Revolution. But indeed it was in the 19th ce...