Tuesday’s rain didn’t dampen the Doylestown Friends Quaker Meeting’s commitment to abolishing nuclear weapons on the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

In the last six months of his presidency, President Biden should adopt peacemaking as his legacy.

August 6 will mark the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed by the Aug. 9 bombing of Nagasaki.

The Fuge in Warminster hosted a celebration of the 55th anniversary of Apollo 11 and 65th anniversary of Project Mercury this past weekend with hundreds in attendance.

On the 248th anniversary of New Jersey signing the Declaration of Independence, the Princeton Battlefield Society (PBS) announced it had honored Willis Mercer, seventh generation descendant of Gen. Hugh Mercer, as the first member of its new “Heroes of Princeton” program.

When a military veteran had an episode of PTSD earlier this year in Doylestown Borough, it was three trained Central Bucks Regional Police Department members who came to the vet’s aid.

“You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time....That is all you need to know.” By the time World War II ended, hundreds of young women throughout Great Britain would receive a telegram like this one, summoning them to Bletchley Park, code name Station X, to play a vital, yet, until many years later, unsung role in defeating Nazi Germany.

As we reach the 80th anniversary of the landings at Normandy, it is proper to pause and give remembrance to all our fighting men and women from all our conflicts.

I am a proud American who fully embraces the United States values, especially freedom of speech. I am also a refugee born and raised in Soviet Kazakhstan and later Uzbekistan. I lived among a Muslim …

On Sept. 11, 1777, at the Battle of Brandywine near the Birmingham meetinghouse, Marquis de Lafayette was wounded while trying to turn retreating American soldiers around to face the British advance. A British musket ball passed through his left leg below the knee.

At first, veterans from Doylestown Borough’s American Legion Post 210 thought a bill from the Central Bucks School District for use of a baseball field next to War Memorial Field was a …

Slate Hill Burial Ground in Lower Makefield is said to be the oldest cemetery in Bucks County, with interments dating to the 1690s. The oldest tombstone has 1698 inscribed on it and the last internment occurred in 1918.

In July 1776, Dr. William Shippen Jr. (1736-1808) was appointed chief physician of the Continental army hospital in New Jersey by George Washington. In October, he became director general of all …

Norval Reece, who worked with Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy during the 1960s on civil rights and anti-Vietnam marches and campaigns, will speak on “Why Activism in the …

There is a single act that would end the fighting in Gaza. In fact, this simple solution has been there for months now and should have been promulgated and encouraged by the world right from the …

Mary Sheridan Park in Lambertville is diminutive in size but rich in items of historic interest, from its 1840s vintage city jail, to its 1870 Civil War monument, to its often-overlooked Civil War naval cannon.

The Washington Crossing Chapter Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) awarded the SAR War Service Medal to compatriot Kevin Treiber of Yardley.

Seven-year-old Layla Leuthy Peck, riding aboard a Newtown fire truck escorted by police, delivered 100 cards on Dec 29 to World War II veteran Joseph Gagliardi in celebration of his 100th …

There is, for each of us, that time of day, hopefully, when we sit down with a pinch of time to burn, whether we’re too tired to do anything else or just need to wind down. I find myself surfing …

A local couple and Upper Makefield officials have teamed up to preserve an important piece of American history.