SS United States Conservancy releases trailer for upcoming documentary
The first trailer for an upcoming documentary on the SS United States, the ship that spent decades docked…
What was it like to be a patient centuries ago? This Mütter workshop explores it
The Mütter Museum will offer a different way to experience its famously unusual collection next month by asking…
Philly’s America250 celebrations honor local cigar smoker who invented matchbooks
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The Banker Who Made America
Never heard of Thomas Willing? Philadelphia author and thought leader Richard Vague hadn’t much, either, until he started…
Celebrate PA’s 250th at Carpenters’ Hall
In 1776, a group of men gathered in Philadelphia to write a document that declared their independence from…
Ministry of Awe turns a historic Philly bank building into a trippy art playground
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As Trump pushes to take down slavery exhibits, Bartram’s Garden exposes its ‘fraught’ history
In a quiet corner of Bartram’s Garden that overlooks the Schuylkill River, there’a a small memorial named after Harvey,…
Young Philadelphians dress up as their favorite Black historical figures
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History Floats on the Gazela, with the PSPG
The tall ship Gazela is not the first thing you notice about Penn’s Landing these days. Lately, the…
Festival at Drexel on Saturday celebrates the world’s first-ever medical school for women
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Taking the Stage that Trump Set
A year ago, my fellow co-artistic directors and leadership at the Wilma Theater considered how to acknowledge our…
USS Philadelphia is the oldest surviving warship in America, but it wasn’t built at the Navy Yard
The wooden boat known as the Philadelphia only fought one battle before it sank into the chilly waters…