History

Twenty years ago, the maritime museum accidentally bought an 1815 portrait. Her story can now be told at the historic Biddle family estate.

The city’s historic Atwater Kent collection returns to public view for the first time since being transferred to Drexel University.

The Benjamin Rush Garden in Independence National Historic Park has been redesigned with England in mind.

New Barber’s Hall was set to become a historically designated property. The nomination may now be withdrawn.

A Virginia man bought a tattered piece of cloth claiming to be part of George Washington’s war tent. It’s now in a Philadelphia museum.

Delaware 250, a nonpartisan entity, is awarding grants to groups and organizations interested in participating in the celebrations.

Did political cartoons contribute to American nation-building? This exhibition at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania shows how.

A 1770s combat musket was stolen from Valley Forge in 1968. It has come home to the Museum of the American Revolution.

Pennsylvania’s historic preservation tax credit program has an annual cap of $5 million. Legislation moving through Harrisburg would change that.

This comes as the relatively new leadership grapples with how to approach their collection, which includes a lot of human remains.

We talk to NPR host Peter Sagal before a live taping of Wait Wait in Philly. And, a new study found monkeys in Puerto Rico became kinder after Hurricane Maria.

Through Sept. 8, the exhibit at the Declaration House asks visitors what the Declaration of Independence means to them today.

Sessions outside of Washington, D.C. are rare. There have only been two since the Capitol moved there from Philadelphia in 1800.

A federal judge ruled earlier this month that the 1,000-foot ocean liner must leave its berth on the Delaware River in Philadelphia by Sept. 12.

John Wind’s kitschy send-up of Revolutionary War heroes pokes holes in the masculine image at the Museum of the American Revolution.