Between 1950 and 1954, from the age of 14 to 17, along with a handful of my friends, my second […]
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: A headless horseman on the Delaware?
The history of the City of Philadelphia — some of the deepest going back all the way to the very […]
Gerard St. John: Joe Rosenthal’s Iwo Jima
It is a magnificent photograph. Look at it closely. It is the fifth day of the 36-day Battle of Iwo Jima; […]
An historic hoax in Philadelphia academia
Long before modern technology availed itself of sinister online aspects that allowed for chilling hoaxes like what was perpetrated during […]
Ghost Town — How covid changed Philadelphia forever
Where did Covid come from? A good deal of evidence suggests it came from a biological lab in China, then […]
Life lessons at a Philly rec center
Readers Digest used to run a feature, “The Most Unforgettable Character I Met.” It recounted the story of some individual […]
Seeing America’s history in Philadelphia — while you still can
If you love American history, our city is for you. In my youth, I wondered how so much American history […]
From Peking to Philadelphia — The East, the West, and Pearl S. Buck
In 1938, the Swedish Academy shocked the American literary establishment by awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to Pearl S. […]
Visiting Glen Foerd, Northeast Philly’s historic gem
If you missed the family summer fun of third Thursdays at the historic Glen Foerd Mansion on the Delaware Waterfront, […]