History

A historic shortage of judges holds up thousands of cases in New Jersey. A rare Revolutionary War discovery. Lesley Van Arsdall and NFL's Brian Westbrook's children's book.

The franchise took top honors in the 1934 Negro National League season.

The city of Philadelphia released the remains of two children killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing back to their family.

On the last day of a public dig for artifacts, researchers from Rowan University discovered a mass Revolutionary War grave site for Hessian soldiers.

Kathy Kleiman on her new book about the ENIAC programmers, "Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer"  

Zuhairah McGill will perform her one-woman show “Sojourner,” the first Philly artist in two decades to be on stage at the prestigious festival.

Nell McShane Wulfhart tells the history of how stewardesses became flight attendants and their influence on the labor movement in her book "The Great Stewardess Rebellion."

Jody Rosen, author of "Two Wheels Good," on the history of the bicycle and how it shaped the world - Victorian suffragettes, Bangladeshi rickshaw drivers, and urban yuppies.

The Marvel Carriage Museum in Georgetown will get nearly $25,000 in funding from the town, even though it still flies the Confederate flag.

Some 40 years before Klondike decided to discontinue it, the childhood favorite frozen treat was likely invented in Philly.

Pope Francis has apologized for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools.

Pete Rose will make an appearance on the field in Philadelphia next month for the first time since receiving a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball.

After a relatively mild start to summer, the heat is on.

Marguerite Walz was part of a racist 1920s movement worried jazz would erode “decency” and encourage race-mixing and promiscuity.

The modern medieval castle in Bryn Athyn has closed for renovations until 2023. So it sent its prized 12th-century stained glass to the Philly Art Museum.