A historian explores how religious congregations, activists and city officials have supported undocumented immigrants in ...

The third annual Dinah Day on April 18 will include tours, performances and a screening tied to Dinah’s story at Stenton ...

Millions of Philadelphia’s historical documents will become available online through a new multi-year agreement with Ancestry ...

The City of Brotherly Love is home to hundreds of museums. Here's our top five for visitors looking to soak in the city's ...

To mark Women's History Month, Margaret Graham, the director of Drexel's Legacy Center, spoke about the importance of ...

A museum dedicated to the history of Philadelphia is closing its doors to the public, and it is unclear when — or whether — it will open them again. The Philadelphia History Museum has been struggling ...

People with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Chris Preperato for Carpenters’ Hall) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The legacy of Samuel Wyche, a pioneering Philadelphia police detective who also served as a bodyguard for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is being kept alive through the memories of ...

The Athletics played at Columbia Park at 29th and Columbia in North Philadelphia before opening Shibe Park in April 1909 at 21st and Lehigh Avenue in a section of North Philadelphia called Swampoodle.