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Author Thomas Ricks
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Arts & Entertainment

What the ancient Greeks and Romans taught the Founding Fathers

Journalist Thomas Ricks discusses his new book "First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country."

Air Date: November 17, 2020 10:00 am

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Sigma Sound building, 212 N 12th St. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Sigma Studios, birthplace of the Philly Sound, wins spot on city’s historic register

The Philadelphia Historical Commission voted unanimously to add Sigma Studios to the local Register of Historic Places.

6 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

WPA poster art on view at historic Carpenters’ Hall

Federal travel posters designed in the Depression-era pop up as the 18th-century building gears up for big anniversaries.

6 years ago

Musicians standing outside a stone building holding their instruments and wearing masks
Arts & Entertainment

A Renaissance band leans on tech for a pandemic performance

For 35 years, Piffaro the Renaissance Band has faithfully played 17th century music. This year, it had to think outside the box.

6 years ago

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In the new MOVE documentary, '40 Years a Prisoner,' Mike Africa, Jr., visits the prison cell where he was born. (Screenshot from 40 Years a Prisoner)
Arts & Entertainment

Before the bombing: How MOVE became one of Philly’s greatest tragedies

Tommy Oliver’s documentary shows the radical commune’s early years, tracing escalating tension with the city that led up to the tragic 1985 police bombing.

6 years ago

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A second excavation is planned in Tulsa, Okla., this week to unearth potential unmarked mass graves from a race massacre in 1921. In July, researchers began excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery, shown here. They found no evidence of human remains at that particular excavation site. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)
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Community

Tulsa searches for victims of 1921 race massacre at new site

Excavation crews are breaking ground on Monday at a new site in Tulsa, Okla., in an effort to find the remains of Black victims of one of the nation's bloodiest race massacres

6 years ago

Museum of the American Revolution's
Arts & Entertainment

‘When Women Lost the Vote’: Philly museum tells the forgotten stories of Revolutionary N.J.

The Museum of the American Revolution’s new exhibit, “When Women Lost the Vote,” explores when women and free people of color were legally entitled to vote in New Jersey.

6 years ago

The flag-draped casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in state in the U.S. Capitol on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. Ginsburg died at the age of 87 on Sept. 18 and is the first women to lie in state at the Capitol. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
Courts & Law

Justice Ginsburg buried at Arlington in private ceremony

On Friday, the women's rights trailblazer and second woman to join the high court lay in state at the U.S. Capitol, the first woman to do so.

6 years ago

Judge Robert Rosenberg
NPR
Politics & Policy

Presidential votes have been too close to call and even too close to count

The uncertainty of past U.S. elections may not offer an adequate model given the magnitude of this year's problems and Trump's determination to resist any adverse results.

6 years ago

This photo of the area near Newport where Washington and the Continental Army had their encampment was taken in the late 1800s
Education

Digging into Del. school property’s history unearths ties to George Washington

A nearby historical marker had vanished, so teachers didn’t know the campus of Delcastle Technical High School was part of America’s fight for independence.

6 years ago

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Rev. Robert S. Graetz, center, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy
NPR
Community

Robert Graetz, only white pastor to back Montgomery bus boycott, dies at 92

Robert and his wife Jeannie Graetz faced bombs and KKK death threats for their role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, but their Black friends and neighbors protected them.

6 years ago

Boone Farm
Community

‘It’s been there forever’: African American Museum of Bucks County finds a home with its own rich history

The farmhouse, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has its own rich Black heritage: ties to the Great Migration of the 20th century.

6 years ago

The former Hockessin Colored School No. 107 is one of several buildings in northern Delaware would be highlighted under new legislation recognizing the facilities' importance in the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. (Courtesy of Friends of Hockessin Colored School)
Community

Delaware schoolhouse may get rightful place in Black history

Lawmakers propose turning the site, and two others connected to the landmark Supreme Court desegregation ruling, into National Park Service affiliates.

6 years ago

(Flickr Creative Commons/Montgomery County Planning Board)
Community
Billy Penn

The Great Philadelphia Balloon Race, and that time a crash landing ended in a $1,000 robbery

Launched at the Bicentennial, the annual airborne event petered out in the ’90s.

6 years ago

Gov. Phil Murphy was on hand for the ceremony, where he announced that he signed legislation designating the Howell House on Lafayette Street as the official New Jersey Harriet Tubman Museum. (Screenshot)
Community

Harriet Tubman Museum in Cape May, N.J. open for visitors

The ribbon-cutting happened 171 years after the Underground Railroad conductor first attempted to escape from slavery. It follows a virtual opening in June.

6 years ago

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