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 ...

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 ...

Are the lessons from Iraq so quickly forgotten? In that war, overconfidence in U.S. technological superiority and arrogance at the beginning of the war — remember Don Rumsfeld’s gleeful “shock and awe ...

Your Jan. 15 editorial (“MLK’s famous dream remains inspirational, timely”) was excellent. It was a great history lesson reminding your readers of the challenges of public school integration in the ...