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Pennsylvania has a deep, storied history within the origins of the United States, and you can get a unique taste of that in ...
Wikimedia Commons/The Germantown Quakers The Germantown Protest, 1688 Four German Quakers wrote the first protest against ...
One bird spectacle readily observable in Allegheny County right now comes in the form of 100 purple martins swirling above ...
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. — The past is alive at the Shippensburg History Center.
At the eastern edge of Westmoreland County’s Route 30 corridor lies one of the state’s best example of a colonial fort — Fort ...
Andrew Allen (1740-1825), the second son of Allentown founder William Allen, spent many years in England hoping to regain the ...
Student-teacher pairs from 26 U.S. states and territories began the Young People’s Continental Congress in Philadelphia, marking the start of a weeklong deep dive into U.S. history and civic ...
These ‘zero-wasters’ didn’t feel the strike the same as others As much of Philadelphia was struggling with what […] ...
I did a research project about Black Americans who had served in the Peace Corps in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Many of them sought refuge from white racism in the United ...
The Museum of the City of New York is launching a new investigation into the remains of a vessel found beneath lower ...
Tech and finance leaders, politicians and executives are gathering in Pittsburgh for the Energy and Innovation Summit ...
William Thompson deserves plaudits as one of many whose early service led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776.