History

Simon Cameron

Local historian pens new book about Lincoln's 'Scandalous Secretary of War'

Wawa-style federal duck stamp anointed in Philadelphia

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

Museum of the American Revolution Artifacts

Meet the author of a new book that explores Colonial boozing

Fish House Punch

This 'comedy tour' is BYOB

Founding Footsteps Tours

Bike through Fairmount Park while getting a history lesson

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

Elisha Kent Kane

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

Philly collector selling letter written by Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson letter

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

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James and Dolley Madison home sold in Society Hill

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

Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil

Machines in new PAFA exhibit help Thomas Eakins' ghost

PAFA

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

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

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

Carroll - South Kitchen & Jazz Parlor

New historic tour is BYOB

BYOB Founding Footsteps Tours

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

Wedding Altar Germantown

Reading Terminal Market food tour to focus on presidents' favorites

Obama at Reading Terminal Market

Hairy exhibit: Academy of Natural Sciences displays presidential locks

Presidential

Artifacts emerge from centuries-old toilets at Philly construction site

Museum of the American Revolution

100 years ago, shark attacks terrorized the Jersey Shore

Sharks summer of 1916

160 years ago, Philly hosted first Republican National Convention

RNC Musical Fund Hall

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

Kids reading

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

Renovation at Independence Visitor Center anticipates boom in Philly tourism

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

Museum American Revolution

Join in Germantown's Juneteenth Festival

New 'Cultural Scavenger Hunt' tests Philly knowledge

Franklin Institute

Spend Flag Day at Independence National Historical Park

American

A look into the lives of the Founding Fathers

Ben Franklin and Betsy Ross

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

Turkish Silk Scarf

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

All aboard Battleship New Jersey for a craft beer fest

Go on an old-fashioned picnic at Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion

Old Fashioned Picnic

Fishtown historian strangely nominates two garages for Historic Register

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

Ocean City Surfing: An Exhbit

Try prison food at Eastern State Penitentiary

Prison Food Weekend

Celebrate Fete Day at Elfreth's Alley

Elfreth's Alley

Archaeologists uncover centuries of Philly history beneath former visitors center

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Donations needed to restore Doughboy Statue in Northern Liberties

Doughboy Statue NLNA

Double-decker bus concerts provide a soundtrack to the city

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