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Daniel James Brown’s “Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II” is about tough challenges faced by Japanese...
In the spring of 2011, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz received a phone call from an animal control officer. During an investigation, she...
The Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association, in response to a significant outbreak of harmful cyanobacterial algal blooms in Canandaigua Lake last...
As in her book “Dead Man Walking,” “The Death of Innocents” is Sister Helen Prejean’s account of accompanying two condemned death row...
Who could have predicted that when Nikki Haley’s parents met the challenges of immigrating from India to the United States that one of their...
In her introduction to Samantha Glen’s “Best Friends: The True Story of the World’s Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary,” Mary Tyler Moore wrote,...
In considering the overall good quality of history courses at two-year and upper-level colleges in the State University of New York system, I would...
By the end of his fourth day as a plebe at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pa., Wes Moore had run away four times. Sgt. Austin, Moore’s...
When students at a high school Participation In Government class were asked to invite outside speakers to discuss controversial issues, I accepted the...
In his highly readable and spellbinding memoir, Jim McCloskey describes his first assignment as a chaplain at New Jersey’s Trenton State Prison,...
When Eddie Jaku was an inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, he suffered from the effects of beatings, slave labor, malnutrition, freezing weather...
“King: A Life” is a highly readable and engrossing account of the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and of the moral and spiritual...
I agree with John Murtari and a previous Finger Lakes Times column of his that schoolchildren need to be protected from harmful transgender policies....
Jim Mandelaro’s story “Bobby Greco: A Passion for the Game” looks at the life of Geneva resident Bobby Greco, who was born with a rare...
Four days before Christmas 1943, the lives of two pilots — one American, the other German — would be changed forever during a brief encounter in...
By the end of November 1941, military decoding experts in the U.S. had broken Japan’s secret codes and intercepted communications that a Japanese...