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From Above: Independence Square, 1927

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National Museum of the American Indian treaty exhibition featuring Penn Treaty Museum artifact opens in September

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 Workers keep a careful watch on the open hearth furnaces at the Bethlehem Steel Co. plant. (Image courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Bethlehem then and now, from steel town to arts community

On a recent summer evening, hundreds of people - lawn chairs and blankets in tow flocked to SteelStacks, a premiere arts campus at the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation plant

11 years ago

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Join CityLove to explore Philly: June 14-20

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 Student protesters are shown putting a barricade in front of a burning armored personnel carrier that rammed through student lines, June 4, 1989. Many were injured and killed during an army attack on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tienanmen Square. (AP Photo, file)
Courts & Law

Tiananmen and the erasure of history

The Chinese government employs falsehood and terror to blot out the memory of the murders in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago. And the econo ...

11 years ago

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Dust to Dust: 3711 Melon Street’s homegoing

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From Above: Philadelphia Museum of Art (1927)

12 years ago

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Sensitivity and the search for common ground at Weccacoe Playground / Bethel Burying Ground

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Mercy Douglass' graduating class of 1960 (Photo courtesy of Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing)
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Paying tribute to the women who helped integrate Pennsylvania’s health care system

Alumnae from the Mercy-Douglass School of Nursing returned to Philadelphia recently to remember their time together in the 1940s and 50s. ...

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Trolley tour takes memory lane trip on Lincoln Highway

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Building Philadelphia lecture series returns March 11- May 20

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From industry to abandonment, artist’s mecca to hipster haven, new exhibit tells tale of Northern Liberties

12 years ago

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Black History Month events for the plannerly

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Marian Anderson Historical Society opens its doors for MLK Day of Service

12 years ago

 Catherine Cahill, president and CEO of the Mann Center, is shown with
Arts & Entertainment

Honoring life and legacy of Octavius Catto, 19th century civil rights champion

The Mann Center for the Performing Arts has organized a series of concerts, workshops, and educational programs centered around the life of Octavius Catto.

12 years ago

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