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Minnie the Elephant, a Delco Republican Party symbol, was retired in 2019 after 30 years of walking in the 4th of July parade in Delaware…
Treasure hunter Dennis Parada is not satisfied with the documents the FBI released on its secretive search for Civil War-era gold in Dents Run…
Nathan Raab, an Ardmore document historian, is selling a 1787 letter. Cris Barrish, WHYY, reported the correspondence’s importance, gained from author George Washington.
Washington…
Exton resident Gene Delaplane, a former history teacher and the president of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology’s local chapter, is among a group of…
On Monday, Feb. 13, at 3:30 PM, Gwen Ragsdale will present a free lecture in person and virtually in West Chester University’s Philips…
The nation’s first training camp for soldiers of African descent in the Civil War, Camp William Penn, was established in 1863 at the La…
Holocaust Awareness Museum resource Fred Behrend, 96, who witnessed the flames of Kristallnacht in 1938 at age 12.
Leaders at the Holocaust Awareness Museum and…
As a child, Norristown native Charles Blockson was told by a teacher that his heritage had no history worth learning, writes Avi Wolfman-Arent for…
The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting it has identified the biological parents of Joseph Augustus Zarelli, a 4-year-old known for 65 years only as…
After opening in the mid-1890s, Willow Grove Park and its roster of entertainment and amusements quickly drew hoards of visitors from Philadelphia and its…
One of Bucks County’s most popular museums and historic properties is allowing couples to marry on their well-known grounds.
The properties of the…
A new traveling exhibit, “Out on Campus: A History of LGBTQ+ Activism at Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities,” will be displayed during the upcoming weeks at…
Known for being the earliest-born person ever photographed, one man from Maine may also have had an important local connection. Colin Schultz wrote about…
Villanova University is now the permanent steward of the original copy of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, writes Jackie Thomas…
Nearly six decades ago, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., preached from the pulpit of Salem Baptist Church, which was at the time located in…
In the decades following the assassination of a man who would one day have his name become synonymous with racial equality, one woman who stood…
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