History

A new exhibition by the University of the Arts positions Philadelphia as the heart of the mid-century American avant-garde.

We talk to the creative team behind the new play "My General Tubman" about Harriet Tubman's life and her continuing significance.

As the Chinese Lunar Calendar cycles to its #1 zodiac sign, rats will look cute this year.

British Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani lauded a 2003 treaty that sat unratified for years but, after approval by the U.S., has recently been dredged from its would-be grave.

He joined fellow civil rights activist Cecil B. Moore to protest the North Philly school’s segregation.

Panelists at WHYY and NewCORE’s “Conversations of King” event consider the “mountains” of relativism, materialism, segregation and violence in 2020.

“Education helps to lift an individual from the bondage of legends and half truths to the unfettered realm of objective analysis," Dr. King said.

This moment in history should compel us to follow Dr. King’s mandate of love, if we are to survive and combat the violence that permeates our society.

An Alabama county is preserving what’s left of the lockup where officials say Martin Luther King Jr. served his final time behind bars just months before his assassination.

Philly’s new police commissioner is named Danielle Outlaw. As the first Black woman in the post, she's making history. But we knew there had to be something more to the name.

About 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to confidante Emily Hale were unveiled Thursday, revealing an intense but ultimately thwarted love affair.

Philly had 45 'Green Book' sites, places cited as safe for African-Americans during segregation. Many that still stand are hiding in plain sight.

Dec. 30 is the deadline to submit a comment to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services over a proposed fee hike to access some records.

The annual Patriots Week events mark the battle that turned serial loser George Washington into a superstar of military strategy.

A little-known but colorful slice of maritime history can still be found in a few places