A version of this article ran last year. As you take your lunch break tomorrow in Center City, stroll over to Front and Market where […]
A version of this story ran last October. On October 10, 2013, at 8:30 a.m., 81-year-old Dr. Walter P. Lomax Jr. passed away. “So what?” […]
Philadelphia is a city rich with history. It has also been deemed “the city of neighborhoods.” But when’s the last time you actually had a […]
From 1910 until 1970, the U.K.-based Pathé News produced newsreels and documentaries on events all over the world. Recently, a collection of 85,000 videos was […]
This week, the National Constitution Center opened the doors to Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello, its six month-long exhibition about Thomas Jefferson. And to my surprise, […]
Tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 22, is the birthday of a great American who raised his voice against tyranny and oppression and led a people into a […]
A version of this article ran in February, 2012. Despite being the self-described “Angriest Black Man in America,” I agree with many whites who argue […]
Yesterday, it was squirrels. Now, ransom notes. One day last March, a Philadelphia school librarian called Bridget Flynn, found one such note in her basement. […]
Philadelphia, squirrel pioneer. A paper by Penn’s Etienne Benson investigates the proliferation of squirrels in American cities, and finds that they are in no way indigenous […]
Philadelphia is a city of many national firsts. First zoo. First computer. First row houses. First stock exchange. First lending library. First volunteer fire squad. […]
We Americans are a fairly history-minded people. No, we don’t always know our history as well as we should—but the history we do know often […]
I was 13 years old in 1976—not exactly a budding patriot, but a good enough student of American history by that point to understand that […]
Philadelphia was once the biggest, baddest town in North America. We were once second only to London in size in the English-speaking world. The national […]
According to a new book from Eric Schlosser — the investigative journalist behind the books Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness — Philadelphia almost fell […]
Have you seen “Ask a Slave”? The new web comedy series “hosted by the plucky Lizzie Mae, housemaid to George and Martha Washington,” according to […]
