History

The University of the Sciences hired a pharmacy historian to comb through its 200-year-old archive.

In its 100 years, the holiday pageant has seen its share of wind.

The Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade is celebrating its 100th year. Here's a look back at photos of what began as a promotional event for Gimbels department store.

Philadelphia’s holiday event has been serving up floats, marching bands, and Santa Claus, too, for a century.

The presidential turkey pardon is a strange, misunderstood and confusing tradition. It's also one that doesn't go back as far as you might think.

Historian David Silverman tells the troubling history of the first Thanksgiving from the perspective of the Wampanoag.

The building where the society is housed was the venue for the first Pa. women’s rights convention. But the collection is endangered by a leaky roof.

Dozens brave the cold to bring warm memories of the Opportunities Industrialization Center founder, whose name now designates a stretch of North Broad.

On Saturday, the stretch of North Broad Street between Oxford Street and Girard Avenue will be renamed “Rev. Dr. Leon H. Sullivan Way” in his honor.

In its updated galleries, the Penn Museum asks hard questions about African cultural appropriation.

The financial collapse of 2008 led to many Americans losing their homes, while others profited. Today, unfair lending practices continue to benefit well-connected investors.

Ahead of the 75th anniversary of liberating the German concentration camps, the Philly museum displays art created in secret by prisoners.

More than 200 years ago, in 1811, a group of enslaved people on a plantation on the outskirts of New Orleans rose up, armed themselves and began a march towards the city.

1,700 kids came to see Hamilton the musical at Forrest Theater and showcase their own songwriting skills.