History

Delaware State University's Tuskegee commemoration connects history with opportunity, introducing students to careers in aviation and STEM.

WHYY is partnering with Penn’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies for a series of events this spring examining the impact of the American Revolution.

Born into slavery, Bustill became an entrepreneur, a patriot and one of the founders of a thriving Black Philadelphia.

Ahead of the United States’ 250th anniversary, two new exhibitions showcase Revolutionary War history and “Radical Americana.”

Anandibai Joshee came to Philly in 1883 to study medicine. Her tragic life is the grit of a South Asian American Digital Archive songwriting project.

A newly independent America needed international trading partners. China was the big fish.

The project to collect feedback started two years ago, with a national controversy and high-profile leadership changes along the way.

If you were alive during the American Revolution, which side would you have been on? Would you have been a patriot? A loyalist to the crown? Maybe somewhere in between?

A “Firstival” in Old City on Saturday celebrates the historic innovation with storytelling and family activities.

Since 1889, the Kelly family has kept the tradition going at Kelly’s Logan House in the heart of Wilmington’s Trolley Square.

Philadelphians of all ages joined in the museum’s costume contest on Sunday, celebrating Black Americans’ historic contributions to the U.S.

A “Firstival” event at Drexel University on Saturday honors the pioneering school, doctors, and successor institutions.

On the 150th anniversary of the world’s first call, we look back at how the telephone changed the world.

The invasive Hessian fly spurred suspicions of biological warfare, threatened the new nation’s economy and inspired the nation’s first citizen science project.

Los líderes universitarios dicen que eliminar la investigación antirracista durante meses fue un error. Estudiantes e investigadores afirman que esto erosionó la libertad.