History

Former rivals from 13th Street and 5th Street now welcome each other, exchanging invites instead of blows, as they reconnect.

Charlie Reddig happened to fly his plane over Hiroshima the same day U.S. forces hit it with an atomic bomb. 'What happened to all these people,' he wondered.

"We live in the golden age of whale science."

"Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo,'" one of the only surviving first-person accounts of the transatlantic slave trade, was published in May.

Guests: Deborah Plant, Autumn Womack, Johnnie Hobbes Jr. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo ...

The transfer took place Friday local time, which marks the anniversary of the armistice that halted the Korean War in 1953.

About 40 percent of victims still await identification.

Stop and frisk. Changing demographics. A fishy police shooting. Inside a 1918 race riot in Grays Ferry and its parallels to the present.

For the fifty-year anniversary of the Wilmington military occupation, the Delaware Art Museum examines how the past reaches its tendrils into the present.

"Join, or Die" is a political cartoon showing a snake broken into eight pieces, and was first seen in Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper in 1754.

Working with small trowels and brushes, the Philadelphia volunteers are restoring the mortar with a mix of lime and sand — materials used when 19th-century prison was built.

The skull was removed from public display at Australia's request last year after a member of the public complained.

A Philadelphia couple with an interest in food history explore different cultures through traditional recipes.

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