History
It’s complicated: Life and work of Rube Goldberg at Philly’s Jewish Museum
Exhibit on life and work of Rube Goldberg opens at National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia’s Museum of American Revolution names CEO
A year and a half after opening, the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia gets a new leader.
8 years ago
Advances in science don’t just happen — sometimes, real progress requires heroic measures. On this show, we explore the lengths peopl ...
Air Date: October 5, 2018
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Women’s rage and political change
Guest: Rebecca Traister Brett Kavanaugh’s anger seen next to Christine Blasey Ford’s composure and the public ...
Air Date: October 4, 2018 10:00 am
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The history of submarine warfare off the Jersey coast
Imagine yourself on a beach in Sea Isle City in the winter of 1942. It’s night, and a cold, steady breeze off the A ...
8 years ago
The Battle of Chosin Reservoir
Guest: Hampton Sides General Douglas MacArthur was certain that the Chinese would not step into the Korean War in ...
Air Date: October 3, 2018 10:00 am
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Bones reveal the Brontosaurus had an older, massive cousin in South Africa
The newly discovered dinosaur, Ledumahadi mafube, translates to "a giant thunderclap at dawn."
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World War I battle devastated U.S. forces, broke hearts at home
On Sept. 26, 1918, the soldiers of the 28th Division, many of them from Philadelphia, nervously glanced at their watches as dawn approach ...
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Drug overdose deaths have been rising for 40 years, and opioids aren’t the only problem
Drug overdose deaths "have been on an exponential growth curve" that began years before the rise in opioid prescriptions seen in the mid-1990s.
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As Philly honors former mayor with street sign, protesters assail Goode’s MOVE legacy
'I’m going to man up for what happened on May 13,' says W. Wilson Goode Sr.
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100 years later, we’re still learning from deadly Spanish flu
Philadelphia was particularly hard hit by the flu epidemic of 1918.
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Wilson Goode Way causes stir in Philadelphia City Council
Goode allowed police to drop explosives on MOVE's fortified rowhome in 1985 during a standoff with the radical back-to-nature group. That caused a fire that consumed 60 homes.
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Mütter gives new life to Founding Father’s medicinal garden
The garden is visible from the iron fence that fronts the museum on 22nd Street near Market.
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Cotton as muse at the African American Museum
Artist John Dowell mixes personal memory and American history in his surreal vision of cotton, now at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.
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Girard College celebrates the 50th anniversary of its integration
Girard College celebrated 50 years of being open to students of color Tuesday by honoring the school’s first black and Asian-American students.
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