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History

An engraving from the Library Company of Philadelphia depicting the massacre of Conestoga Native American tribe by the so-called Paxton Boys in Lancaster, 1763. (Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia)
Arts & Entertainment

Native American massacre from colonial Pa. history to be retold in comic book

The Library Company of Philadelphia is turning the 1763 massacre of the Conestoga Native American tribe into a comic book.

7 years ago

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Military officer Garcia plays the original Armistice bugle from 1918 under the Arc de Triomphe Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 in Paris. More than 60 heads of state and government are in France for the Armistice ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, exactly a century after the armistice. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool)
Community

‘Am I dreaming?’ Letter excerpts from WWI’s last day

A hundred years later, their words can still pierce hearts.

7 years ago

Heads of states and world leaders attend ceremonies at the Arc de Triomphe Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 in Paris. Over 60 heads of state and government were taking part in a solemn ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the mute and powerful symbol of sacrifice to the millions who died from 1914-18. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool)
Politics & Policy

World leaders gather in Paris a century after WWI armistice

"The traces of this war never went away," Macron said.

7 years ago

In this March 7, 1918 file photo, men of U.S. Battery E, 5th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, load horses onto freight cars in Toul, eastern France, en route to the French front. They were messengers, spies, sentinels and the heavy haulers of World War I, carrying supplies, munitions and food and leading cavalry charges. The horses, mules, dogs and pigeons were a vital part of the Allied war machine, saving countless lives, and dying by the millions. (AP Photo, File)
Community

Unsung heroes, animals were vital part of WWI war machine

They were messengers, spies and sentinels. They led cavalry charges, carried supplies to the front, and died by the millions during World War I.

7 years ago

Poll workers carry umbrellas as they greet voters headed in to a polling place at Glasgow High School on Tuesday, Nov. 6. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delaware midterm turnout highest since 1994

More than 360,000 Delawareans voted in Tuesday’s midterm elections. That translates to a turnout rate of 52 percent.

7 years ago

Frankie Franceschini, Linda McCarthy, Bonnie Shuman, and Sandy McCarthy (left to right) react as results come in for the 2018 midterm elections November 6th 2018 in Swarthmore, PA. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
The Why
Politics & Policy

Ladies Night

Pennsylvania will send a record-setting four women to Congress next year, up from the current total of zero. Is the "Year of the Woman" here again?

Air Date: November 7, 2018

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Arts & Entertainment

Princeton’s comic book exhibit spotlights superheroes of civil rights movement

From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King Jr. to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, comics illustrate the fight for equality.

7 years ago

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President Richard Nixon with Vice President Gerald Ford. Nixon resigned on Aug. 9, 1974, rather than face the prospect of impeachment over Watergate. (Historical/Corbis via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Long sealed, newly released Watergate ‘road map’ could guide Russia probe

Last week, one of the last remaining secrets from the Watergate scandal was finally revealed.

8 years ago

Voters use electronic polling machines as they cast their votes early at the Franklin County Board of Elections, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio. (John Minchillo/AP Photo)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Yes, America, is mine

As thousands of migrants walk to America to escape the violence in Central America, I’m disappointed that a president who is the son of ...

8 years ago

Sandra Day O'Connor in a 1950 Stanford University yearbook photo and William Rehnquist in a 1948 Stanford University yearbook photo. (Associated Press)
NPR
Courts & Law

O’Connor, Rehnquist and a supreme marriage proposal

Some personal secrets are so well-kept that even family and friends are oblivious.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Lifestyle

A history of witches

Guests: Katherine Howe, Mark Binelli People accused of witchcraft in the 17th and 18th cent ...

Air Date: October 31, 2018 10:00 am

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Living historian Dean Howarth re-enacts science experiments that were performed on corpses that could have inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Frankenstein, now 200 years old, shows its roots

A theatrical lecture at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia demonstrates the scientific roots of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein."

8 years ago

Influential chef Edna Lewis is the subject of an exhibit at Haverford College, which also celebrates the photographs of John T. Hill, who chronicled her rise. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

A taste of cookbook author Edna Lewis at Haverford College

Edna Lewis, the late doyenne of Southern cuisine, gets her due at Haverford College.

8 years ago

Anti-abortion demonstrators, including Phyllis Schlafly, foreground, rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 29, 1992. The high court upheld most provisions of a restrictive Pennsylvania abortion law.
The Why
Courts & Law

Deja Roe

A Pennsylvania case that got to the Supreme Court in 1992 could have spelled the end for Roe vs. Wade.

Air Date: October 29, 2018

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A white casket containing the body of 14-year-old Carol Robertson, one of four young African-American girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing by Ku Klux Klan members, is carried in for funeral services in 1963 in Birmingham, Ala. (Bettmann/Bettmann Archive via Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Blaming victims for mail bombs carries echoes of Civil Rights bombings

The conspiracy theories flying around hearken back to another era in American history — the 1950s and '60s — when bombs were a tool of political intimidation.

8 years ago

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