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History

Camden High alum Dr. Doris Carpenter, who has led the fight to preserve the Castle, in front of the school in March 2017.  (April Saul/for Newsworks)
Community

Op-ed: In Camden, the fix is in for a beloved Castle

Doris Carpenter has done everything she could to protect her alma mater, Camden High—or at least its regal, hundred-year main building ...

8 years ago

An actor portraying Thomas Jefferson helps plant a new tree in Independence National Historic Park. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Community

76 trees to be planted in Independence Park

The Daughters of the American Revolution donate 76 trees to Philadelphia's historic park, in preparation for the nation's 250th anniversary in 2026.

8 years ago

This Nov. 3, 2017 photo shows partially dismantled domes and spires at the former Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, N.J. The casino that was built by now-President Donald Trump in 1990 is being converted into a Hard Rock casino resort. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Money

Iconic domes, spires removed from ex-Trump Taj Mahal casino

Work crews are dismantling the domes, minarets, and other decorations from the former Trump Taj Mahal casino. It is being converted into a new Hard Rock casino resort.

8 years ago

President John F. Kennedy, c. 1962 and President Donald Trump, c. 2017 ( (stf and Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photos)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Trump's popularity; JFK conspiracies; and reports of sexual harassment in the workplace — Americans weigh in

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup's Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

8 years ago

Listen 4:59
(Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Did you know New Jersey had a Levittown?

William Levitt built his third Levittown in New Jersey. He set it on the banks of Rancocas Creek in Burlington County.

8 years ago

Workers excavate coffins from a construction site in the Old City neighborhood March 9 in Philadelphia.   (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
Science

Archaeologist claims hundreds of 18th-century Philly remains may have been dumped in landfill

The hundreds of remains in question would have been found between March and June at a Center City location under construction for condos.

8 years ago

Children in costume with skull face paint decorate sugar skulls.
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Arts & Entertainment

Penn Museum's Day of the Dead celebration honors victims of earthquake, fires, and hurricanes

The centuries-old tradition celebrates lost loved ones with bright colors, music, dance, sweets, and storytelling.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Edward Ayers “The Thin Light of Freedom”

Guests: Edward Ayers Most histories of the civil war focus on the decisive battles, the military leaders, the bat ...

Air Date: October 30, 2017

Listen 49:16
Secret files, black and white, typewriter print on paper
Politics & Policy

JFK files release leaves real-life whodunit unsettled

"The Kennedy records really are an emblem of the fight of secrecy against transparency."

8 years ago

Bunkong Tuon and family
Speak Easy
Education

Poem: ESL Lesson

Mrs. D showed us how to conjugate the verb to be: "I am the teacher. You are the students. He is from Cambodia. She is from Vietnam."

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, October 26, 2017

Local officials and residents react to President Trump’s naming of the opioid crisis as a national public health emergency.  Repor ...

Air Date: October 26, 2017

Listen 23:27
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Me., smiles Jan., 5, 1949, as she takes a break from looking over papers in her office in Washington D.C.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Senator versus demagogue, and history's verdict

It's great that Jeff Flake stood up to Donald Trump's serial lies and dangerous toxicity, but, lest we forget our history, Flake's act was not unprecedented.

8 years ago

Kevin Minh Allen
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Thank you, Henry Kissinger, for my existence

Some days I entertain the insane thought that, if it weren’t for Henry Kissinger helping to prolong the Vietnam War, I wouldn’t have been born.

8 years ago

WHYY's Lincoln Financial Digital Studio is filled on Oct. 12, 2017, for a public discussion with Lynn Novick, director of PBS'
Speak Easy
Community

Vietnam’s paradox: Veterans and objectors alike can feel like ‘moral deserters’

We accepted that we were free to choose our life’s direction and obligated to choose morally, but our choices were all so unpalatable. There was no exit, no honorable option.

8 years ago

At the September 2016 press conference to announce the preservation of the house at 753 Walnut Street where Martin Luther King, Jr. stayed, a woman photographs a poster; the house is in the background.  (April Saul/for WHYY)
Community

Will restoration come in time for Camden’s MLK house?

If Martin Luther King Jr. were to spend the night now in the second floor Camden bedroom where he reportedly stayed as a seminary student ...

8 years ago

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