History

A Virginia man bought a tattered piece of cloth claiming to be part of George Washington’s war tent. It’s now in a Philadelphia museum.

Delaware 250, a nonpartisan entity, is awarding grants to groups and organizations interested in participating in the celebrations.

Did political cartoons contribute to American nation-building? This exhibition at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania shows how.

A 1770s combat musket was stolen from Valley Forge in 1968. It has come home to the Museum of the American Revolution.

Pennsylvania’s historic preservation tax credit program has an annual cap of $5 million. Legislation moving through Harrisburg would change that.

This comes as the relatively new leadership grapples with how to approach their collection, which includes a lot of human remains.

We talk to NPR host Peter Sagal before a live taping of Wait Wait in Philly. And, a new study found monkeys in Puerto Rico became kinder after Hurricane Maria.

Through Sept. 8, the exhibit at the Declaration House asks visitors what the Declaration of Independence means to them today.

Sessions outside of Washington, D.C. are rare. There have only been two since the Capitol moved there from Philadelphia in 1800.

A federal judge ruled earlier this month that the 1,000-foot ocean liner must leave its berth on the Delaware River in Philadelphia by Sept. 12.

John Wind’s kitschy send-up of Revolutionary War heroes pokes holes in the masculine image at the Museum of the American Revolution.

A series of explosions in 2019 shuttered the largest oil refinery on the East Coast. Here’s a look back at that day.

A federal judge says a historic ocean liner that still holds the transatlantic speed record it set more than 70 years ago must leave its berth in Philadelphia by Sept. 12.

Sunday’s Juneteenth Parade and Festival in Philadelphia served as a “celebration and homage to our ancestors.”

After two missed tries, the literary state senator will lend his voice to James Joyce’s “monumental, musical, bawdy” masterpiece.