On the eve of Independence Day 2020, Amy Cohen uncovers some inconvenient truths about our nation’s first president and a war memorial in Washington Square

Some 30 years behind Boston, Charleston, and New York, the Philadelphia’s first concert was successful enough to draw at least one quite prescient concertgoer to the second

Eager to escape the crowded city and yet unwilling to give up political influence on the direction of the new nation—and the world—the third president settled on the east bank of the Schuylkill at Grays Ferry

The tip of Washington Monument was made in Philadelphia, by the avant-garde William Frishmuth

First US cattle drive crossed the Delaware on the way to Valley Forge from Harry K’s Philadelphia Encyclopedia During the harsh winter of 1777-1778, General Washington sent a group of soldiers into Southern New Jersey to round up livestock for the starving troops at Valley Forge. This was the first cattle drive in America. Led […]