History

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

Blessed are the Peacemakers honored W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr. and Paul Robeson for their work in promoting peace and justice around the world.

Young's new book, Brown, is colored by memories from his family and childhood, United States history, and black culture.

Thursday is 50/50 Day, a global day of action and conversations around gender equality in leadership.

President Trump's tariffs on imported steel aren't the first time the industry has gotten protection from the U.S. government.

The memorial opens the same week that Alabama marks Confederate Memorial Day, an official state holiday in which state offices will close.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at National Constitution Center to mark 150th anniversary of 14th Amendment

Family heir Ben duPont and a former DuPont Company executive recently announced they’re not only buying the DuPont Country Club, but also investing millions to spruce it up.

Photographer and Drexel professor Andrea Modica photographed Mummer wenches, one day a year for 10 years.

The Penn Museum has greatly expanded its Middle East gallery, the first part of a building-wide renovation.

Lewis, the longtime civil rights activist, spoke as part of a year-long series commemorating Martin Luther King's 1967 address at St. Joe's.

The Iraq War’s disastrous aftermath offered my younger self a harsh lesson: Our great and generous nation can be ruled — and also diminished — by mediocre men.

The presidents of Israel and Poland joined thousands of others Thursday for a Holocaust remembrance event at the former Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau.

Grin and beer it: On April 7, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt legalized the sale and consumption of beer in the U.S. after 13 years of Prohibition.

'The Darkest Hour seems to show the prime minister with a whisky in every scene, but as he famously said, 'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'