History Special Collections Show Their Stuff For Archives Month Philly This October marks the 13th year of Archives Month. Led by the National Archives under the banner of American Archives Month, the initiative, launched in 2006, aims to raise public awareness and appreciation of ...
History Tonight Is Forever Honors Stonewall Riots & Philly LGBT Activism History A new art installation at William Way LGBT Community Center connects local and national moments in gay liberation history. Ali Roseberry-Polier takes a ...
Photography Photo Collection Project Takes A Walk In Ed Bacon’s Shoes Fisher Fine Arts Library at Penn is digitalizing a treasure trove of slides from the personal collection of Philly city planner extraordinaire Edmund Bacon and they need your help. Michael Bixler has the ...
History New Museum In The Works For America’s First Male Saint The Shrine of St. John Neumann on Girard Avenue is a melting pot brimming with religious devotion. It's also a destination for curious tourists looking to get a glimpse of the saint's body enshrined in ...
Photography A Century Of Public Events On The Benjamin Franklin Parkway The Historical Society of Pennsylvania takes a look at big public shindigs and the making of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway through rarely seen photographs from the Historical Society of ...
History New Audio Archive Gives Voice To Philly Immigration History Relive Philly public history in high fidelity through those who came before us. Historian Janneken Smucker gives us a listen inside the inner workings of the digital oral history project, "Philadelphia ...
City Life Fisher Fine Arts Library Gives Hidden City Daily Eternal Life Long live Hidden City Daily! We are honored and thrilled to announce that our website was chosen for inclusion in the Fisher Fine Arts Library Web Archive at Penn. Michael Bixler has the ...
History Victorian-era Philly Bicycle Routes Now Available Online Rutgers University Libraries releases maps and tour guides of old Philadelphia bicycle routes from the 1890s. Julie Still gives us the ...
