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President Trump walks with Melania Trump and National Parks and National Parks superintendent Stephen Clark through the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., on Tuesday.
NPR
Community

At 9/11 commemoration, Trump praises ‘Heroes of Flight 93’

8 years ago

An original 1779 minute book of Pennsylvania’s unicameral Revolutionary General Assembly has returned to Pennsylvania for safekeeping in the Pennsylvania State Archives. (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission)
Politics & Policy

Long-lost Revolutionary War-era book returns to Pennsylvania

Historians are always a bit skeptical about items supposedly from the 1770s because of all the reproductions out there, but this volume proved to be the real deal.

8 years ago

 A Carlisle Historical Society exhibit depicts the 'assimilation' process that students at the Carlisle school underwent. The children pictured are not the three Arapaho boys. (Carlisle Historical Society)
Community

Carlisle Indian school legacy presents a conflicted point-of-view

For Native Americans, the school has become a symbol of intergenerational trauma, but also a testament to the strength, spirit and resilience of their cultures.

8 years ago

Joe Dittmar holds remnants of the World Trade Center — a section from one of the core beams of the South Tower, right, and a bolt from a steel beam. (Jud Esty-Kendall/StoryCorps)
NPR
Community

‘They thought I was dead’: A 9/11 survivor recalls his escape

On Sept. 11th, 2001, Joe Dittmar was on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower for a business meeting when the terrorist attacks started.

8 years ago

The Flight 93 memorial's Tower of Voices — seen here in the final stages of construction — will open to the public on September 9th. It is the last piece of the memorial. (Lisa Wardle/WITF)
Community

At Flight 93 memorial, a dream is realized

A memorial honoring those 40 people who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, is finally finished.

8 years ago

(Lucy Perkins / 90.5 WESA)
NewsWorks Tonight
Health
WESA

Before Roe: How Pa. hospitals used a legal loophole to provide abortions

The emergency room at was a very different place 40 years ago than it is today.

8 years ago

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Benjamin Rush, the medical doctor and Founding Father, took after the Renaissance-man civic participation of his mentor, Benjamin Franklin. (Charles Willson Peale/Courtesy of Crown)
NPR
Community

‘Rush’: The other Founding Father from Philadelphia named Benjamin

Benjamin Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was also a bold abolitionist, an advocate for public education and a prolific writer.

8 years ago

WBUR
Community

The nearly forgotten history of basketball HOF inductee Ora Washington

The first time Ora Washington made it into a hall of fame, all did not go according to plan.

8 years ago

John Cole and his wife, Barbara, visit the tiny graveyard where his great grandfather Isaac Cole, is buried. Isaac Cole was a Civil War veteran and worked as a woodsman for the nearby Hopewell Furnace.
Community

Forging a sense of Hopewell Furnace’s history through its citizens and visitors

Hopewell Furnace National Site has been unearthing its African-American history.

8 years ago

Listen 7:14
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Temporary work: the rise of the gig economy

Guest: Louis Hyman Chances are you or someone you know is a consultant, a contractor, a freelancer, temporary wor ...

Air Date: August 31, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:30
Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer,  gather Thursday outside the Criminal Justice Center where a judge was considering whether Abu-Jamal’s appeals should be reinstated. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Decision on Abu-Jamal’s right to file new appeal in murder conviction must wait

Supporters hope Mumia Abu-Jamal will get a new trial in the murder of Philadelphia police Officer Daniel Faulkner due to what they say is a prosecutorial conflict of interest

8 years ago

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016, during the committee's hearing with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart on worldwide threats. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

About John McCain

Guests: Dick Polman, Mickey Edwards, Wendy Schiller Senator John McCain died on Saturday at the age of 81, leavin ...

Air Date: August 28, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:55
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, August 23, 2018

Elevated levels of toxic chemicals show up in some Montgomery County groundwater. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Ana Orso discusses th ...

Air Date: August 23, 2018

Listen 21:07
Louise Thaden began setting a slew of female flying records, intent on becoming the best woman pilot in America. (Courtesy of Fly Girls)
Radio Times
Community

The women of early aviation

Guests: Keith O’Brien, Bonnie Tiburzi Caputo Air shows of the 1920s and 1930s were competitive, dangerous a ...

Air Date: August 22, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:02
Police stand guard at the Frank Rizzo statue on the grounds of the Municipal Services Building. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

A historian on the Rizzo debate: ‘It comes down to what statues do’

Controversy surrounding the 10-foot-tall statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo across from City Hall has rekindled in recent weeks

8 years ago

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