History

In response to the protest, the International Olympic Committee stripped Carlos and Smith of their gold medals.

New Vikings exhibition at the Franklin Institute focuses on the savagery of the ancient Scandinavians.

The medal and $25,000 prize will be presented at a private event at the museum April 11.

Exhibit on life and work of Rube Goldberg opens at National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

A year and a half after opening, the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia gets a new leader.

Advances in science don’t just happen — sometimes, real progress requires heroic measures. On this show, we explore the lengths peopl ...

Guest: Rebecca Traister Brett Kavanaugh’s anger seen next to Christine Blasey Ford’s composure and the public ...

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 ...

Guest: Hampton Sides General Douglas MacArthur was certain that the Chinese would not step into the Korean War in ...

The newly discovered dinosaur, Ledumahadi mafube, translates to "a giant thunderclap at dawn."

On Sept. 26, 1918, the soldiers of the 28th Division, many of them from Philadelphia, nervously glanced at their watches as dawn approach ...

Drug overdose deaths "have been on an exponential growth curve" that began years before the rise in opioid prescriptions seen in the mid-1990s.

'I’m going to man up for what happened on May 13,' says W. Wilson Goode Sr.

Philadelphia was particularly hard hit by the flu epidemic of 1918.

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.