It was daybreak on September 1, 1939. And my grandfather and I were seated next to the family radio in his summer house in Lake Mohegan, 40 miles north of New York. It was an exciting time. We could ...

Headlines and stories from the San Pedro News-Pilot in September 1939 chronicled, in real time, the devastation that unfolded the last time a tropical storm made landfall — that time near Long Beach. ...

The arrival of a full-on tropical storm in Southern California earlier this month marked the first such meteorological occurrence in the area in 84 years, so a look back at that 1939 storm seems ...

GRODNO DISTRICT, 18 September (BelTA) – On 17 September, Skidel commemorated the events of 17 September 1939. The city held a rally dedicated to the Day of People’s Unity and a reenactment of the ...

MINSK, 12 September (BelTA) - Without the events of 17 September 1939, Belarus would still be torn apart today, with families divided and Belarusians having forgotten their native language, faith, and ...

In the hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as the smoke of destruction still lingered in the very air we breathed, I was reminded of W. H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939" and read from it on ...

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NPR's Scott Simon reads W.H. Auden's "September, 1, 1939," a poem that resonates with the smoke and destruction witnesses in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station.