History

Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia is hosting two Obon lantern floating ceremonies.

“It's Philadelphia history,” Africa Jr. said while discussing his new book at Temple University. “It's Black history. It’s revolutionary history. It's American history.”

Amy Tan discovers the joys backyard birding, Philadelphia Inquirer food critic Craig LaBan, and the surprising history behind the Oxford English Dictionary.

The 10-acre settlement joins Philadelphia’s Independence Hall and Stewart Township’s Fallingwater on the list.

A carved stone was recently discovered in a Bucks County cave. It is evidence of movements by a Bucks County band of Revolutionary outlaws.

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 The nomination may now be withdrawn.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.