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A version of this article ran in February, 2012. Despite being the self-described “Angriest Black Man in America,” I agree with many whites who argue […]

Yesterday, it was squirrels. Now, ransom notes. One day last March, a Philadelphia school librarian called Bridget Flynn, found one such note in her basement. […]

Philadelphia, squirrel pioneer. A paper by Penn’s Etienne Benson investigates the proliferation of squirrels in American cities, and finds that they are in no way indigenous […]

Philadelphia is a city of many national firsts. First zoo. First computer. First row houses. First stock exchange. First lending library. First volunteer fire squad. […]

We Americans are a fairly history-minded people. No, we don’t always know our history as well as we should—but the history we do know often […]

I was 13 years old in 1976—not exactly a budding patriot, but a good enough student of American history by that point to understand that […]

Philadelphia was once the biggest, baddest town in North America. We were once second only to London in size in the English-speaking world. The national […]

According to a new book from Eric Schlosser — the investigative journalist behind the books Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness — Philadelphia almost fell […]

Have you seen “Ask a Slave”? The new web comedy series “hosted by the plucky Lizzie Mae, housemaid to George and Martha Washington,” according to […]

If ever there were a dubious selling point for a property, it’s this: One scene in the movie Stealing Home was filmed there. Not that […]

Last week, I heard that Philadelphia was getting the Philadelphia Public History Truck. I wasn’t sure what a Philadelphia Public History Truck was, or why […]

With three days to go, onetime mayoral candidate Sam Katz has met his Kickstarter goal of raising $53,000 to continue making his documentary series, Philadelphia: […]

AP reports the new Benjamin Franklin Museum will open Aug. 24. The 7,000-square-foot underground facility had opened in 1976 at the downtown site where Franklin’s […]

What if 3,000 Italian or Irish or Jewish or Polish men, women and children from one of the most pivotal periods of American history were […]

Happy birthday, America! Tomorrow — or, really, yesterday — you will turn 237 years old. Honestly, you don’t look a day over 192. Independence Day, […]