Higher education has taken quite a beating lately. Lawmakers have been going after administrators and faculty at high-profile institutions over Gaza protests and diversity initiatives. Students and parents are getting increasingly impatient with rising costs. Faculty are disgruntled in many ...
Cheers: The tunnels that are cut through mountains and hillsides and under rivers are marvels of modern engineering. And it鈥檚 easy to imagine how awed drivers must have been a century ago when they traveled through the Liberty Tunnels in their Model Ts when it opened to traffic in January ...
In a distant corner of Pittsburgh鈥檚 sprawling Allegheny Cemetery, you have to march up a steep hillside to find the grave of Josh Gibson. It鈥檚 a flat stone, set in the ground, and has Gibson鈥檚 game engraved on it, his dates of birth and death and the words 鈥淟egendary Baseball ...
Cheers: Thanks to his job as a school supervisor in the communities within proximity to Avella, Alvin Dinsmore White was able to compile valuable information about people and families in the region. White himself died in 1994, just a few months before his 100th birthday, but his legacy ...
The first Memorial Day was commemorated on May 30, 1868, just a little more than three years after the end of the Civil War. The scars left by the war still ran deep 鈥� between the Union and the Confederate states, 620,000 combatants lost their lives. In the early 1860s, that was a full 2% ...
Cheers: Traffic was snarled for a little while in downtown Carnegie Monday, but it wasn鈥檛 a typical slowdown caused by an accident or construction. Instead, it was because about 20 coach buses carrying veterans to Washington, D.C., made a stop in the Allegheny County community so they could ...
