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, […]
Grace Kelly and the Irish connection
Several years ago I attended a Villanova University Irish Studies celebration at the Kelly House in East Falls. It was […]
Thom Nickels: Two Philadelphia mansions
Recently I received an invitation to give a lecture in November 2025 at Dunwoody Village in Newtown Square on my […]
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: Philly’s Italian Market is a piece of living history
Over the course of the next year, virtually every piece of Philadelphia history will be enjoyed as tourists from all […]
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: The return of the Durham boats
It’s been 250 years since George Washington arrived in the City of Philadelphia after a five-day journey. He arrived at […]