History

Guest: Scott Stern The United States government incarcerated tens of thousands of “promiscuous” women in the ...

More than 50 years after the government forced hundreds of Native Alaskans into boarding schools, their descendants are haunted by and trying to overcome residual trauma.

'River Town Portraits' is a visual love poem to quaint Bucks County village.

Nearly 700 men from the USS Juneau lost their lives, including the five Sullivan brothers. Lt. Charles Wang was the only officer to survive.

Bean was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, which made the second moon landing in 1969.

The Carlisle Indian School tried to assimilate Native American children into mainstream American culture, but hundreds died from harsh conditions in the early 1900s.

The property is part of the Plymouth Meeting Historic District, established almost 50 years ago, and the buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Three Iraqi natives and a Syrian woman have been enlisted as guides to share a modern cultural perspective with visitors to new Middle Eastern galleries at the Penn Museum.

In Tuesday’s primary, a record number of women won nominations to represent Pennsylvania in Congress. The Gallup Poll’s Frank ...

From skulls and bones to electroshock therapy equipment and a cycloptic pig — take a peek inside the Oddporium. Delaware's first and only shop for the peculiar and bizarre.

Back in the 1800s, 'tenderloin' was a common moniker for a city's vice districts and skid rows. Where was Philly's Tenderloin, and what was it like?

Experts on Anne's diary said the newly discovered text reveals more about her development as a writer than it does about her interest in sex.

Activists are reigniting Martin Luther King Jr.’s unfinished fight against poverty.

Her childhood home made headlines in 2014 when its 81-year-old former owner pleaded no contest to animal cruelty charges for keeping cats and dogs in unsanitary conditions.