History

Newfoundland was Britain’s oldest colony; in 1949, however, its inhabitants narrowly voted to join Canada, thus becoming the 10th p ...

When the School District of Philadelphia has a major problem, poor old Jonah Thompson is surely fidgeting in his grave. And the district ...

Human sleep behavior is different than that of many kinds of primates. That made researchers wonder, why did our branch of the family tre ...

News about Syria stresses geopolitics, so it takes some effort to find an article remidning us that Syria is an actual country with people living there, and dying there. 

At a Saturday afternoon ceremony in West Philadelphia, officials will unveil a state historical marker detailing the 1985 MOVE bombing, o ...

In the spirit of Pennsylvania-born author and urbanist Jane Jacobs, Philadelphians took to the streets of University City Friday to surve ...

It sounds like fantasy; an enormous, luxurious airship, filled with one of the most world’s flammable gases, shuttling the super-rich a ...

Many cemeteries boast residents whose fame followed them into the afterlife, making their gravesites a point of pilgrimage for those stil ...

This July will mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen — so this year is surely a fitting time to reflect on a subject b ...

“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY/NewsWorks t ...