History

To mark the last day voters can register in Pennsylvania, the mayor of Philadelphia joined a discussion about a little-known civil rights activist from the 19th century.

At the Library of Congress Packard Campus of Audio-Visual Conservation, vaults burrow into Mount Pony on a 45-acre campus surrounded by b ...

Watching recent protests in the Gayborhood has brought on a strong case of déjà vu for me.

I turned 50 this year. Feeling so young, I towed my sailboat to the Jersey Shore for the family vacation. It’s a Hobie Cat, ostensi ...

Paleontologists preparing for excursions have to think about appropriate gear, and clothing, but they also have to make sure all of their ...

Eli Dickerson and I start at the edge of the unusual museum collection he manages. This piece is ...

Something changed over the course of human evolution that left a lot of us with weak chins and buck-teeth. ...

In a business district east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, between a pizza shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is an easy-to-miss storefront m ...

It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural ...

A lot more than meets the eye goes into dioramas at natural history museums.

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