Jack Brubaker

Gen. John Fulton Reynolds, Lancaster native and rising officer in the Union Army during the Civil War, was not present at the pivotal Battle of Antietam, Maryland, on Sept. 17, 1862.

The Scribbler celebrated his 10th birthday on June 8, 1954, by scoring a hole in one on the final hole of the Tee Time Miniature Golf Course on the boardwalk at Ocean City, N.J.

Charles Stewart decided to create a podcast. He chose the Conestoga Indians as his first subject because he was born and raised in Lancaster and knew something about the massacre of the Indians here in 1763 by the Paxton Rangers.

The most popular names of Americans who register to vote as Republicans are Andy Byler, Steven Stoltzfus, Elmer Stoltzfus, Jacob Stoltzfus and Benuel Stoltzfus, according to data firm L2. These

One morning in the spring of 1844, subscribers to the New York Sun were astonished to read a front-page story praising “the most extraordinary adventure ever accomplished by man.''

In 1825, John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as sixth president of the United States. The Erie Canal opened a crucial transportation route from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. And

Paul Nevin lives in a converted sawmill along a small tributary to the Susquehanna River at Accomac, York County, but he spends much of his free time about 15 miles

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A prime objective of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, according to its founder and superintendent, Capt. Richard Henry Pratt, was to “kill the Indian ... save the man” by educating

Reading “The Don: 36 Rules of the Bosses” is a disconcerting experience, almost as if you are entering into the deepest, darkest thoughts of a Mafia boss’s mind.