History

Years before the police raids that led to the Stonewall riots, Philadelphia was home to activists and protesters demanding rights for the LGBTQ community.

Even former Mayor Rizzo got hurt in one of the blasts.

The refinery complex has killed over a dozen and injured at least 100 city residents, including firemen, oilmen and even a Philadelphia mayor.

From the perspective of veteran activists, the progress has been astounding.

Dozens of rare 13-star American flags never before exhibited will be on display at the Museum of the American Revolution.

The Penn Museum used “glorified hoverboards” to lift its 13-ton ancient Egyptian sphinx to its new home at the entrance, where it will greet visitors.

The program most of us refer to as "welfare" began as Aid to Dependent Children during the New Deal, and offered financial assistance to women.

News of the separation comes just days after the release of the Netflix-produced, Ava DuVernay-helmed miniseries When They See Us.

The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, which has been working on the project since 2006, developed an app with free self-guided tours and first-person stories from

The fake eye an Army dentist constructed for Capt. Arthur F. Hoffmann became one of the few positive things Hoffman shared with his family about D-Day.

Are we worthy inheritors of what the D-Day fighters bequeathed us?

The invasion of Normandy marks the turning point in WWII when the allies launched a major offensive to drive the German army out of France.

The College of Physicians in Philadelphia plans to shrink its library in order to expand its museum of medical abnormalities.

The "Great Dying," the biggest extinction the planet has ever seen, happened some 250 million years ago and was largely caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Before the Stonewall riots, there was another — very different — group of gay and lesbian protests called the Annual Reminders in Philadelphia.