History

Fifty-two Philadelphia innovations will be spotlighted in 2026, one each week, by the city’s artists and visitors bureau.

The Constitution Center’s Jeffrey Rosen wrote songs about the moral philosophy behind the Founding Fathers’ signature phrase.

The scholarship encourages classrooms to conduct research and dive into civic learning.

Eight curators from eight Indigenous nations redesigned Penn Museum’s Native North America display.

Located on Spruce Street near the Delaware Waterfront, "A Man Full of Trouble" was a place for the working class to meet, drink and imagine what independence could look like.

It has spent most of this year at the Port of Mobile in Alabama, being scoured to remove chemicals, wiring, plastic and glass.

Historian Colin Woodard explains how America's centuries-old regional differences have led to the political divisions that continue to pull the country apart.

“The Ministry of Awe” will be an immersive art experience in Old City, opening in a former bank building March 14.

“The First Salute,” opening in April, will tell the story of a tiny, largely Jewish island that played a key role in the Revolutionary War.

The musical theater composer stopped in Wilmington during the “Phantom of the Opera” revival tour to talk about Victorian-era paintings.

Mike Purzycki used his office to put Gibraltar in the city’s hands and get state money to stabilize it. Now his foundation wants the property.

The latest round of exhumations of Native American students from a cemetery at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School resulted in the remains of 17 being repatriated.

Cheney led the armed forces as defense chief during the Persian Gulf War under President George H.W. Bush before returning to public life as VP under his son, George W. Bush.

With help from Penn State’s Center for Black Digital Research, the mural draws attention to the activism of 19th-century Black women.

The new Maguire Hall is a 173-year-old industrialist’s mansion converted into a showcase of Philadelphia artists.