From military parades to pandemic learning pods, 23rd Street Armory rises to the occasion amid COVID-19 as a haven for underserved school children. Amy Cohen has the story

Sarah Kennedy takes us to the Quartermaster Depot in South Philly where a Christmas factory outlet and a surveillance center make strange neighbors

David Coyne traverses bramble and broken blacktop along Roosevelt Boulevard to reveal a military housing community that was evacuated and demolished in the 1960s

Why are some buildings on the National Register of Historic Places preserved while others are casually destroyed? The Shadow gives an example of this phenomena through the Wagner Free Institute of Science and the John F. Kennedy Vocational Center

Attention Navy enthusiasts and photographers interested in rare events: tomorrow, the USS Forrestal will be towed from the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The historic aircraft carrier’s final voyage will conclude its 59 years at a Texas scrapyard

As America honors the brave men and women whose service keep the country free, Matt Szalwinski takes a moment to shine a little light on the Philadelphia National Cemetery in West Oak Lane

One hundred fifty years have passed since the Battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of the American Civil War. Now, the Mütter Museum — which opened that same year — opens a permanent exhibit commemorating Philadelphia’s medical contribution during that awful war. Joe Brin previews

While South Philly’s Third Regiment Armory is at the center of an ongoing discussion, another armory sits silently deep in West Philadelphia. The Shadow digs deep to bring us its story