History

A former Philly penitentiary, now a museum, is presenting a spring break exhibit highlighting sports and recreation behind bars.

The battleship returns to the dock where it was originally built in the early '40s for extensive repairs and new paint.

Rare photos from Grant Castner are part of a special new exhibit at the science, history and art museum.

The armonica was invented in London, but its founder called Philadelphia home.

With a new entrance opening Friday, the Independence Seaport Museum turns away from the I-95 cap, toward Spruce Street Harbor Park.

More voters have the ability to cast a ballot before Election Day, with the majority of states now offering some form of early in-person voting and mail voting to all voters.

“Philadelphia is a wrestling city,” said owner Chris Kindig. “It has a lot of history, it has a lot of prestige. We’re almost obligated to give to that culture.”

The artist is leaning into the strange and his anxieties about cataract surgery in a new art exhibit.

Stafford also served as commander of Apollo 10 - the dress rehearsal before NASA's first landing on the moon in 1969.

Artist Xenobia Bailey’s “Radical Black Elite” spotlights the civic strength of 18th- and 19th-century Black residents in Philadelphia.

As March Madness approaches, a look back at the Palestra’s place in basketball history.

We’re broadcasting live from the Museum of the American Revolution and taking a trip back in history.

The SS United States has been languishing at a pier in south Philadelphia for more than twenty-five years.

Announcing Capt. David E. Harris' death, American Airlines's CEO called him a "trailblazer."

The world premiere by Curtis composer Steven Mackey samples the development of guitar sounds over hundreds of years.