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The dancer, teacher, and karate black belt stayed active until age 95.

Moses worked to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement.

As World War I raged, the local Socialist Party came under fire — and sparked a challenge to the Espionage Act.

The first woman to serve as Camden’s mayor was remembered as ‘a trailblazer’ and ‘a lady at all times’ who cared deeply about her adopted city.

The American Vegan Society is about to set up its first public storefront. Its new walking tours reveal Philly’s vegan history.

The deadly structural failure is still closely studied by civil engineers and serves as a cautionary tale for similar designs.

Northern Liberties community leaders learned about the burial ground at 5th and Spring Garden via social media.

West Philly’s 140-year-old Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament is set to be demolished, erasing local Black history and memory, writes resident Kyle Hiller.

The university’s investigation into mishandling of victims’ remains from the 1985 bombing is ongoing.

UD joins a consortium studying how the work of people held in slavery, or those who held people as slaves, influenced the history of the schools.

The city of Charlottesville, Va., removed a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Saturday, toppling a symbol that was at the center of the deadly Unite the Right rally

The statue of Robert E. Lee that sparked the deadly Unite the Right rally four years ago in Charlottesville, Va., will be removed Saturday, the city council announced Friday.

On July 8th, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read to the public for the first time, Independence Hall holds a reenactment annually.

Big bodies are good for cold places.

That's the gist of a foundational rule in ecology that has been around since the mid-1800s.