History

The newly discovered dinosaur, Ledumahadi mafube, translates to "a giant thunderclap at dawn."

On Sept. 26, 1918, the soldiers of the 28th Division, many of them from Philadelphia, nervously glanced at their watches as dawn approach ...

Drug overdose deaths "have been on an exponential growth curve" that began years before the rise in opioid prescriptions seen in the mid-1990s.

'I’m going to man up for what happened on May 13,' says W. Wilson Goode Sr.

Philadelphia was particularly hard hit by the flu epidemic of 1918.

Goode allowed police to drop explosives on MOVE's fortified rowhome in 1985 during a standoff with the radical back-to-nature group. That caused a fire that consumed 60 homes.

The garden is visible from the iron fence that fronts the museum on 22nd Street near Market.

Artist John Dowell mixes personal memory and American history in his surreal vision of cotton, now at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.

Girard College celebrated 50 years of being open to students of color Tuesday by honoring the school’s first black and Asian-American students.

Historians are always a bit skeptical about items supposedly from the 1770s because of all the reproductions out there, but this volume proved to be the real deal.

For Native Americans, the school has become a symbol of intergenerational trauma, but also a testament to the strength, spirit and resilience of their cultures.

On Sept. 11th, 2001, Joe Dittmar was on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower for a business meeting when the terrorist attacks started.

A memorial honoring those 40 people who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, is finally finished.

The emergency room at was a very different place 40 years ago than it is today.