History

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?

One firefighter was taken to the hospital to be treated for heat exhaustion.

A Man Full of Trouble is Philadelphia’s last remaining example of colonial bar culture that birthed the American Revolution.

A massive digitization and artificial intelligence platform gives free access to multiple historic archives and thousands of documents.

Philadelphia had killed it as host of the nation’s 100th birthday in 1876; the 1926 event went very differently.

It's the nation's semiquincentennial! July 4, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Here's how the U.S. is planning to party.