In the winter of 1917, Maryland resident Martha Redman said goodbye to her son William as he left her for the battlefields of WWI. He was killed in August, 1918 in Brittany. His remains were never returned to his mother….

Certain requirements must be met for a public health issue to be classified an epidemic. These include a demonstrable negative health impact — and victims. The flu is a yearly epidemic, and opioid addiction is turning rapidly into a serious…

Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J.F. Powers, 1942-1963Edited by Katherine A. Powers(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 480 pages, $35) IN SUITABLE ACCOMODATIONS, Katherine A. Powers presents selections from the correspondence of her father, the American…