History

What started as a showcase of industrial ingenuity at the 1876 Centennial Exposition has shape-shifted many times.

City officials took down the statue of the Italian explorer, fearing it would be damaged, during the local and national racial unrest in 2020.

Pennsylvania Hospital, founded in 1751, treated patients in the Pine Building. The museum will feature the original surgical theater and other exhibits.

Historic Philadelphia has hired more performers to populate Old City for the semiquincentennial.

With the slavery exhibit back at Philadelphia’s President’s House, we spoke with Pulitzer winner Nikole Hannah-Jones on why this fight is about more than erased history.

“Burlington County Joins the Revolution” features artifacts, including a letter demanding payment from the British for chickens and razors.

Chief White Eyes toggled between British and American leadership to secure land for the Lenape.

Workers began restoring the exhibit Thursday after a judge’s order to return, despite a Trump administration appeal.

“This is the American people fighting back and saying we will not accept this,” said one Independence Mall visitor. “Will not allow history to be rewritten.”

University leaders say removing the anti-racism research for months was a mistake. Students and researchers say it eroded academic freedom and institutional trust.

The Trump administration said Tuesday it plans to appeal the judge's earlier ruling ordering the park service to restore the exhibit.

Caroline Rebecca LeCount fought hard to desegregate Philly’s public transit. More than 150 years later, the agency continues to celebrate her legacy.

A federal judge on Monday ordered that an exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be restored at his former home in Philadelphia.

A Department of the Interior spokesperson said they “disagreed” with the decision. Meanwhile, Mayor Cherelle Parker said she was “thrilled.”

Fellow civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton said his mentor “was not simply a civil rights leader; he was a movement unto himself.”