The city’s last big Benjamin Franklin Parkway concert was a first-ever New Year’s Eve concert in 2025. Headlined by LL […]
About: Thom Nickels
Thom Nickels: Trigger warning!
Several years ago, while attending a lecture at the American Catholic Historical Society, I spoke with a woman who was […]
Thom Nickels: Great Valley High School has changed a lot
As reported in Broad + Liberty last week, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has opened an […]
Thom Nickels: Bilal and Krasner try to re-write the facts
The death of Renee Nicole Good — presented as a “murder” by an ICE agent — has shown the American […]
Thom Nickels: A Philadelphia history for the 21st century
It’s the Atlas Shrugged of regional history books. “Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century,” a three-volume set, […]
Thom Nickels: When Walt Whitman came to Germantown
The poet Walt Whitman visited Germantown on a number of occasions. Perhaps his most noteworthy visit was recorded by Katherine […]