Kenneth Spangenberg received the Navy Cross for his heroic actions in combat aboard the USS San Francisco.
Recently it was disclosed that a recording was made of Armstrong on November 24, 1956 at Muhlenberg College.ย
Eugene Grace was at the helm of Bethlehem Steel for decades. He's long gone, but his mansion in Bethlehem is not.
'Now when I was a child all you ever heard about was Frank Buchman this, and Frank Buchman that. Yet today nobody knows who in the heck Frank Buchman was.'
'What I found amazed me. Here were people, particularly those from the Near East, whose past was like a hidden treasure.'
The year was 1883 and Robert Sayre needed a job. The longtime Lehigh Valley Railroad executive had been unceremoniously dismissed from his post by the sons of company founder Asa Packer.
Perhaps the Lehigh Valley served as a sort of preface to one of the greatest success stories in American literature.
On October 22, 1862 the 47TH Regiment of Pennsylvaniaย Volunteers from the Lehigh Valley were part of an amphibious Union assault on Pocotaligo, South Carolina.
As the world of medicine changed, Good Shepherd changed.ย Today itโs an institution Rev. John Raker could not have imagined on that long ago day, when he had to turn a sorrowing woman away.
Many people today have no memory of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. But back in the days of swing they were right up there in popularity on the Big Band stages with Glenn Miller and other stars.
It was probably 1851 when author Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet, who wrote under the name Mrs. E.F. Ellet, arrived in Easton.
The America of 1919 should have been a peaceful place, but the reality was far different.
There once was a time when the citizens of Pottsville, Pennsylvania did not regard their native son, the author John OโHara, with kindness. His name was whispered in scorn and not a little hatred for exposing the peccadillos and worse of the …
It's hard to imagine Bethlehem's historic Main Street without the stately brick home that's smack dab in the middle of it, but 50 years ago, that home almost met the wrecking ball.
As an archivist and historian, the National Canal Museumโs Martha Capwell Fox knows a lot about the Lehigh Valleyโs contribution to Americaโs Industrial Revolution.ย
In the spring of 1951, Muhlenberg College administration had a decision to make. Not only had longtime college president Levering Tyson decided to resign, but they were about to make college history. That year they picked for the first time a…
A lot has changed in the world since 1933, for the better and for the worse. But there is a little corner of Limeport, Pennsylvania where one of those good things remains. It is a baseball stadium. There it sits in an era of domed arenas and …
In case you haven't been paying attention, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the landing of American astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong's one small step for a man on the lunar surface has been justly celebrated in 2019 with books, a…
Eighty years ago, Allentown High School (now Willian Allen HS) was known for its excellent sports teams. And among the young men that played for those teams were two brothers, African Americans named Jackson.
In the late 18th century, the sea lanes around the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean Sea were a busy place. Here were the ships that carried the wealth of the West Indies in the form of the sugar from the islands of British owned plantations t…
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