Like so many Americans, Susan Morissette sat in front of her television set in the days following Sept. 11. A mother of four young children, ages four and younger, Morissette sat paralyzed in fear and ...

Hard steel, concrete, soft mud and plants all go into the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project. But the mud and plants pale beside steel and concrete in the public eye — even though they'll remain standing ...

I first struggled with "under God" in my fourth-grade class in Westport, Connecticut. It was the spring of 1954, and Congress had voted, after some controversy, to insert the phrase into the Pledge of ...