Bezos losing big money -- to say nothing about reputation -- now at the Post … From Woodward and Bernstein to The Daily Telegraph Jeff...

… another major challenge In my many years of teaching English Composition, the introductory college English course, I, like so many...

The Chief believed in his community — We are Pittsburghers … renaming Heinz Field was a tremendous blow to The Chief One of the beautiful...

Truly a beautiful campus … part of a nationwide decline Few people realized that the most devastating recession in American history, the...

… A frightening but real scenario When I was a child, a book was released that became an immediate best-seller and tried to change the...

Gen. Eisenhower Threatened to Quit Just Before D-Day, but FDR supported him Perhaps no one’s role in the victory of the Allied Forces...

“The Klan hated Catholics and Jews as well as Blacks” Fifth grader, St. Francis de Sales School When I asked a young fifth grader last...

I feel blessed today to have started by college education at PSU-Altoona … they have priced themselves out of business To date myself, I...

… earning a spot in a prestigious college helps you secure a better job Securing a spot in a prestigious college or university is still...

Overflow Church -- Altoona Mirror Photo For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to...

Coach Danny Hurley at Wagner … From high school to Wagner to two NCAA titles This was a game that I have completely forgotten, but I do...

Katie Brady Conrad in the 1930s after the death of Phil Katie Brady was leaving a country in which religious intolerance had created...

The Railroad Station, Lilly, Pa. where the KKK disembarked April 5, 1924: The night that Lilly lost its innocence By Hugh Conrad Nestled...

My dad after receiving the medal from Bishop Guilfoyle … for “exceptional service” to the Catholic Church My father, Hugh B. Conrad, Sr.,...

PSU president Neeli Bendapudi … war of trustees against the Paterno move Penn State University has some major issues to deal with at the...

… “too weak to serve on juries” I still teach students about the classical novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” despite some states banning the...

Katie Brady Conrad in the backyard of our ancestral home in Lilly, Pa. in the 1930s In 1880, at the age of eight, little Katie Brady from...

Repost: A tremendous community success story: Lilly Grade School Basketball Tournament: Recollections and a little history from my years,...

… the SAT is valuable for a number of reasons During the Covid pandemic, many universities and college decided to forgo use of the...

President rankings even by professional historians and political scientists are often said to be subjective. However, when they are done...