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The Delaware Home State Float rolls during the 57th Presidential Inaugural Parade on Pennsylvania Avenue, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Community

The United States’ 250th birthday: Delaware prepares for semiquincentennial celebrations

Delaware 250, a nonpartisan entity, is awarding grants to groups and organizations interested in participating in the celebrations.

1 year ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Make room for cartoons among America’s founding documents

Did political cartoons contribute to American nation-building? This exhibition at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania shows how.

1 year ago

Maria Thackston and Scott Stephenson with the musket
Arts & Entertainment

Stolen antique gun is returned to Museum of the American Revolution in Philly

A 1770s combat musket was stolen from Valley Forge in 1968. It has come home to the Museum of the American Revolution.

1 year ago

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Poth Brewery Lofts in Brewerytown. The $42 million project was completed with historic preservation tax credits. (Aaron Moselle/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

‘Woefully behind’: Pa. advocates hope more support for historic revitalization is part of the state’s budget

Pennsylvania’s historic preservation tax credit program has an annual cap of $5 million. Legislation moving through Harrisburg would change that.

1 year ago

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Robert Pendarvis (Matt Ramey)
Science

2 people who donated parts of their bodies to Philly’s Mütter Museum now want them back

This comes as the relatively new leadership grapples with how to approach their collection, which includes a lot of human remains.

1 year ago

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We talk to Peter Sagal about his npr show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me.
Studio 2
Science

Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me host Peter Sagal, how a hurricane made monkeys nicer, Philly Joy Bank

We talk to NPR host Peter Sagal before a live taping of Wait Wait in Philly. And, a new study found monkeys in Puerto Rico became kinder after Hurricane Maria.

Air Date: June 25, 2024 12:00 pm

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large eyes are seen through windows
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Declaration House exhibit offers ‘a window into understanding’ the struggles for freedom in the United States

Through Sept. 8, the exhibit at the Declaration House asks visitors what the Declaration of Independence means to them today.

1 year ago

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Brendan Boyle speaks at a podium
Community

U.S. Congress could come to Philly in 2026 for a commemorative session

Sessions outside of Washington, D.C. are rare. There have only been two since the Capitol moved there from Philadelphia in 1800.

1 year ago

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SS United States out on the water
Money

Conservancy that oversees SS United States seeks $500K to help relocate historic ship

A federal judge ruled earlier this month that the 1,000-foot ocean liner must leave its berth on the Delaware River in Philadelphia by Sept. 12.

1 year ago

A decanter on display at the exhibit.
Arts & Entertainment

Here’s mud in your eye: Whiskey decanters warp historic masculinity at Philly’s Museum of the American Revolution

John Wind’s kitschy send-up of Revolutionary War heroes pokes holes in the masculine image at the Museum of the American Revolution.

1 year ago

This photo from June 21, 2019 shows flames and smoke emerging from the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia. The blaze and a series of explosions shook homes and caused extensive damage at the refinery, the largest on the East Coast. The company shuttered the 150-year-old site and laid off workers. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
PlanPhilly
Community

‘This is how I’m gonna die’: Former employees remember the PES refinery explosion, 5 years later

A series of explosions in 2019 shuttered the largest oil refinery on the East Coast. Here’s a look back at that day.

1 year ago

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a close-up of The S.S. United States
Community

Historic SS United States is ordered out of its berth in Philadelphia. Can it find new shores?

A federal judge says a historic ocean liner that still holds the transatlantic speed record it set more than 70 years ago must leave its berth in Philadelphia by Sept. 12.

1 year ago

Philadelphia's Juneteenth Parade proceeded down 52nd Street from just outside the Mann Center to the festival at Malcolm X Park on June 16, 2024. (Cory Sharber/WHYY)
Community

Photo essay: Philadelphia’s Juneteenth Parade and Festival highlights ‘Black excellence’ and ‘a celebration of our freedom’

Sunday’s Juneteenth Parade and Festival in Philadelphia served as a “celebration and homage to our ancestors.”

1 year ago

Nikil Saval posing for a photo in a coffeeshop with the book 'Ulysses'
Arts & Entertainment

Pa. state Sen. Nikil Saval plans to finally read ‘Ulysses’ on Bloomsday

After two missed tries, the literary state senator will lend his voice to James Joyce’s “monumental, musical, bawdy” masterpiece.

1 year ago

two people with a shovel at the groundbreaking
Community

Haddonfield unveils two markers commemorating the borough’s Black experience

The markers are the first ones recognizing the borough’s Black history since its founding in 1713.

1 year ago

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