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By STEVE PFARRER

The conventional story of World War II in the United States is the one about how the country, shrugging off the hardships brought on by the Great Depression, rolled up its sleeves to defeat the fascist forces of Nazi Germany and Japan and make the...

By HANNAH BEVIS

Judy Dixon has spent most of her life playing and championing the game of tennis. The 74-year-old is constantly on the move, and her decades of hard work fighting for equity in tennis culminated in a recent unexpected honor from the United States...

By STEVE PFARRER

When the World Didn’t EndBy Guinevere TurnerCrown Reading Guinevere Turner’s affecting coming-of-age memoir, “When the World Didn’t End,” you’re left with one thought in particular: How did this woman endure years of emotional and psychological trauma...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Florence’s Gabby Thomas made her first World Athletics Championships a meet to remember. After an injury just weeks before last year’s USA Track and Field Championships delayed Thomas’ trip to the sport’s biggest stage, Thomas went to Budapest for the...

By STEVE PFARRER

Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)By Dean Cycon; Koehler BooksA common image from the end of World War II in Europe is that of cheering crowds of people welcoming Allied troops in towns and cities that had been liberated from the Nazis.A lesser-known and...

By STEVE PFARRER

The climate news seems relentlessly bleak: rising seas and melting glaciers; growing drought and firestorms; increasingly violent storms that destroy everything in their path and unleash terrible flooding.Oh, and let’s not forget more longstanding...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Rabbi Justin David journeyed from Northampton to Israel at the beginning of March for a 3½- week sabbatical, aiming to hike the Israel National Trail that stretches across the country.But he nearly didn’t make it back.“I left hours...

By STEVE PFARRER

Once We Were HomeBy Jennifer Rosner, Flatiron Books Northampton author Jennifer Rosner made a strong debut in 2020 with her first novel, “The Yellow Bird Sings,” a story set in Poland during World War II, in which a Jewish mother and daughter are...

By LUIS FIELDMAN

HOLYOKE — On a dark, rainy night on July 9, 1946, about two dozen servicemen aboard a B-17 “Flying Fortress” were returning home from war. They had served in World War II and were flying towards Westover Field from Greenland with their final...

   By STEVE PFARRER

It began during a warm, beautiful summer, when many still viewed war as a glorious and noble pursuit, a rite of passage for men marked by dressed battle lines, colorful uniforms, dramatic cavalry charges and quick and decisive campaigns.But when the...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Michael Hixon medaled at his previous two world-class international competitions.The Amherst native and Indiana University diver captured bronze at the 2015 FINA World Championships in the 1-meter individual springboard and silver at the 2016 Rio...

By BASSEM MROUE

BEIRUT — Warplanes on Saturday struck the Syrian town where a chemical attack had killed scores of people earlier this week, as Turkey warned that a retaliatory U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base would only be “cosmetic” if greater efforts are...

By JACK SUNTRUP

EASTHAMPTON — Japanese war planes swept into Pearl Harbor 75 years ago, killing more than 2,400 Americans. The day after, from a podium directed toward U.S. lawmakers, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared Dec. 7, 1941, would be a date “which will...