In honor of Memorial Day, Mickey Herr tracks the reinterred remains of soldiers who fought in the American Revolution and Civil War from Washington Square to Palumbo Recreation Center to Old Swedes’ Church in South Philly

A forgotten minister is honored with 100 year old stump sculpture at Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church

Late last month a fire–and the water used to put it out–damaged the Officers’ Quarters building at the ancient fort on the Delaware, a site of the 2013 Hidden City Festival. Peter Woodall went down to talk about the future of the site with Beth Beatty, the executive director of Fort Mifflin, assessing the damage amidst a long list of other critical capital projects

In Southwest Philly, traces of the Revolutionary War and Underground Railroad survive if you know where to find them. The Shadow Knows, as he digs into the Garrick House’s history

Hidden behind the stone wall: the life of George de Benneville, pioneering founder of the Universalist Church, and a doctor who treated patriot and loyalist alike in the War for Independence

Philadelphia intervention set the stage for the Boston Tea Party (238 years ago today), even more decisive was a peaceful protest–the largest public gathering yet in colonial America–that sent the British tea importers packing for good