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
Of Not...
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...