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Museums

Wawa-style federal duck stamp anointed in Philadelphia

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Museums

New video from Museum of the American Revolution teases objects in wait

Museum of the American Revolution Artifacts

Events

Meet the author of a new book that explores Colonial boozing

Fish House Punch

Events

This 'comedy tour' is BYOB

Founding Footsteps Tours

Events

Bike through Fairmount Park while getting a history lesson

History

Philly explorer Elisha Kent Kane to be honored at Laurel Hill Cemetery

Elisha Kent Kane

NASA

IMAGES: Views from the Apollo missions you haven't seen

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History

Philly collector selling letter written by Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson letter

Business

B & B reopens in home of Atlantic City's founder

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Real Estate

James and Dolley Madison home sold in Society Hill

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Events

Ritz at the Bourse to show film focused on Hieronymus Bosch paintings

Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil

Events

Machines in new PAFA exhibit help Thomas Eakins' ghost

PAFA

DNC2016

Hillary didn't do this on her own, ladies, so keep lifting her up

DNC2016

Philly native happy to be back home partaking in historic Clinton nomination

Events

Step back in time to the 1920s during 'Jazz Age on the Delaware'

Carroll - South Kitchen & Jazz Parlor

Events

New historic tour is BYOB

BYOB Founding Footsteps Tours

Books

New book of poems, 'Franklinstein,' tells complicated history of Germantown

Wedding Altar Germantown

Food

Reading Terminal Market food tour to focus on presidents' favorites

Obama at Reading Terminal Market

Presidential

Hairy exhibit: Academy of Natural Sciences displays presidential locks

Presidential

History

Artifacts emerge from centuries-old toilets at Philly construction site

Museum of the American Revolution

History

100 years ago, shark attacks terrorized the Jersey Shore

Sharks summer of 1916

History

160 years ago, Philly hosted first Republican National Convention

RNC Musical Fund Hall

Events

Six 'Go 4th & Learn 2016' events to check out before Fourth of July

Kids reading

The Arts

Iconic 'Unconditional Surrender' statue visiting Battleship New Jersey this summer

Travel

Renovation at Independence Visitor Center anticipates boom in Philly tourism

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Museums

Here's when you can visit the Museum of the American Revolution

Museum American Revolution

Events

Join in Germantown's Juneteenth Festival

Johnson House

Events

New 'Cultural Scavenger Hunt' tests Philly knowledge

Franklin Institute

Events

Spend Flag Day at Independence National Historical Park

American

History

A look into the lives of the Founding Fathers

Ben Franklin and Betsy Ross

Events

Use Turkish marbling to design a silk scarf at the Penn Museum

Turkish Silk Scarf

History

Online database of Philadelphia abolitionist's diary to shed light on Underground Railroad

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All aboard Battleship New Jersey for a craft beer fest

Food & Drink

Go on an old-fashioned picnic at Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion

Old Fashioned Picnic

Sponsored

Five local weekend adventures you have to try this summer

Real Estate

Fishtown historian strangely nominates two garages for Historic Register

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Events

New exhibit in Ocean City looks back on early days of East Coast surfing

Ocean City Surfing: An Exhbit

Food

Try prison food at Eastern State Penitentiary

Prison Food Weekend

Events

Celebrate Fete Day at Elfreth's Alley

Elfreth's Alley

History

Archaeologists uncover centuries of Philly history beneath former visitors center

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History

Donations needed to restore Doughboy Statue in Northern Liberties

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Music

Double-decker bus concerts provide a soundtrack to the city

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