History

While it might be unbelievable today, boys were once required to swim nude at YMCA pools — yet some recall the experience with no shame.

Seven-time All-Stars Dick Allen and Billy Wagner will forever be enshrined in Cooperstown for their legendary hitting and pitching achievements.

The "Our Market Project" aims to restore, celebrate and advocate for the preservation and livelihood of Philadelphia's longstanding and beloved Italian Market.

Philadelphia Visitor Center will also bring the Wanamaker Light Show back for the holidays.

The North Philadelphia History Festival will feature installations, workshops, walking tours and a musical procession of classic cars.

In his second talk at the Athenaeum, Snyder will cover recently discovered burial grounds and what happened after they were unearthed.

The release involves more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977.

Teenager Zoe Levenstien has been a fan of Philly’s historic actors all her life. Now she is one of them.

Joseph Mikulec walked the globe collecting signatures from kings and paupers. Now his century-old autograph book is going back home.

Emilio Carranza was heading home to Mexico to complete a goodwill tour when his plane crashed in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

For more than 30 years, the Shofuso house has celebrated the historical Japanese festival of Tanabata, attracting residents to learn and commemorate the holiday.

Simulcast from Philly and London on July 13, 1985, Live Aid was the most ambitious global television event of its time: 16 hours of live music in two different continents.

Like the original, Philly’s anniversary Live Aid performance will also be a fundraiser, this time benefiting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

The project in South Jersey is expected to be completed in time for next year’s semiquincentennial celebrations.

Independence National Historical Park hosts some of the nation’s preeminent places of history. But what was the area like before the park was established in 1949?