After a long debate over who would replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, the United States Treasury has thrown the country a curveball: Hamilton […]
Remember the Alamo? The old Texas mission is historic, but the area surrounding it feels less so — overgrown with hotels and office buildings. Now a […]
Have you ever caught yourself sitting in an old tavern thinking about how the wonderful concept of taverns came to be? Well, tomorrow night from 5:30 p.m. […]
Happy 158th birthday to the pencil with attached eraser! It was on March 30, 1858, that Hymen L. Lipman received a patent for his remarkable […]
Today is National Puppy Day, which is proof, we guess, that every dog has its day, seeing as every dog in the world was once […]
We were thinking the other day about E. Digby Baltzell, the Penn sociology prof who coined the term “Wasp,” for “White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.” It would […]
Today is the 225th anniversary of the First Bank of the United States, which was founded by Congress in 1791 to stabilize the government and […]
Happy February 29th, also known as “leap day” — a lunar event created by humans to compensate for the fact that the earth doesn’t orbit […]
When news broke last weekend that a trio of kids at Villanova University went on bad LSD trips — two got arrested for dealing — […]
On Friday I wrote about how skateboarders turned LOVE Park into a great public place. The park is now being overhauled with a new design, […]
Today is National New Jersey Day, which is a pretty peculiar thing for a day to be. We thought about celebrating by driving around a […]
Whether or not you enjoy my work, you have The Daily Pennsylvanian to thank/blame for it. I went into college not sure what I wanted […]
Did you know that half the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention here in Philly were farmers? Washington had Mount Vernon, and Jefferson had Monticello; […]
Sam Katz has been making his documentary series, Philadelphia: The Great Experiment, for years now. He even used Kickstarter to raise money to fund it. […]
The City of Philadelphia has finally fixed a 140-year-old problem. After a nine-month repair job, the dome at Memorial Hall has been restored. A chronic […]
