“So why did we invade Iraq?” Two editorials from a Coal Region newspaper. One written in the opening days of the war, full of certainty about what must come next. The other, just a year later, asking harder questions as the cost became clearer and the answers more uncertain. Read the Full Story.
“So why did we invade Iraq?” That blunt question appeared in a Pottsville, PA newspaper editorial one year after the invasion in 2004. Written as the war’s first justifications were already unraveling, it captured the uncertainty many Americans were beginning to feel. Two decades later, that war's impacts still resonate as a new conflict has begun. Read the Full Story.
Newspaper editor Benjamin Bannan implored the US Army be used to put down labor organization in the Coal Region during the Civil War.
"The rebellion of American slavery against American freedom has just been beaten and crushed..."
The Shenandoah Evening Herald ran a moving editorial on Christmas Eve 1945 about the meaning of the holiday after World War II.
An editorial from a newspaper in Pottsville during the 1918 pandemic reminds us to be thankful for life amid a time of death.
In November 1938, the Pittston Gazette published an editorial calling for a reconsideration of America's strict immigration policies.
The Lykens Standard voiced support for President Herbert Hoover and called the campaign against him illegitimate.
The editors of the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader warned readers on August 7, 1945 that the atomic destruction of Hiroshima opened a dangerous new age.
In the summer of 1940, a new minister at Pottsville's Bethel AME Church sought to reach out to the Coal Region's white community for economic cooperation.