History

The Carlisle Indian School tried to assimilate Native American children into mainstream American culture, but hundreds died from harsh conditions in the early 1900s.

The property is part of the Plymouth Meeting Historic District, established almost 50 years ago, and the buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Three Iraqi natives and a Syrian woman have been enlisted as guides to share a modern cultural perspective with visitors to new Middle Eastern galleries at the Penn Museum.

In Tuesday’s primary, a record number of women won nominations to represent Pennsylvania in Congress. The Gallup Poll’s Frank ...

From skulls and bones to electroshock therapy equipment and a cycloptic pig — take a peek inside the Oddporium. Delaware's first and only shop for the peculiar and bizarre.

Back in the 1800s, 'tenderloin' was a common moniker for a city's vice districts and skid rows. Where was Philly's Tenderloin, and what was it like?

Experts on Anne's diary said the newly discovered text reveals more about her development as a writer than it does about her interest in sex.

Activists are reigniting Martin Luther King Jr.’s unfinished fight against poverty.

Her childhood home made headlines in 2014 when its 81-year-old former owner pleaded no contest to animal cruelty charges for keeping cats and dogs in unsanitary conditions.

Pennsylvania's May 15 primary election is an excellent opportunity to cast your ballot.

Crews began razing a decades-old Jersey Shore drive-in restaurant and landmark Wednesday. 

Drummer James "Jab'o" Starks may have thought he was playing for James Brown, but his drums ended up fueling the birth a genre.

In urban spaces all over the world, pedestrians traverse their cities’ neighborhoods, with the goal of living by the standards set by urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs.

When it comes to scientific knowledge, we’re selective about who and what we believe. But, how do we get to a place of knowing? We hear ...

America's first coffee-table book, circa 1800, showed Philadelphia as the world's next great city.