Michael Herman (letters, December 3) obviously did not spend fourth grade in a California public elementary school as I did (1957-58), or he would not be asserting that the truth about Hernando Cortez ...

Editor: Most Americans probably never heard of Martin Niemöller. Niemöller was a Lutheran pastor who was a citizen of Germany before, during, and after World War II. Initially he supported the ...

A best-selling book in 1986 by author and minister Robert Fulghum, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” was a collection of short essays that showed how the lessons we were taught in ...

As a young boy, I spent a fair amount of time in the wilds of Indiana in the company of older men. I was in awe of their experiences, but I had my suspicions that some of their stories stretched the ...