As I walked along the nearly 60-foot-long bronze sculpture, Taps, which was played at the conclusion of the formal unveiling […]
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: A log cabin in Penn’s Woods
Standing today at one of America’s most historic intersections — the confluence of Old York Road and Susquehanna Street Road […]
Thom Nickels: The 2016 DNC — back when primary votes meant something
Looking back at Philly’s turn in the political spotlight
By Thom Nickels
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: Save the John McClellan Hood house
Another piece of Pennsylvania history may be passing away.
By Michael Thomas Leibrandt
Meade and Gettysburg
Actions of a great Pennsylvania general at the pivotal battle of the Civil War.
By Jeffery S. Prushankin
Thom Nickels: The AIDS epidemic in Philadelphia, forty years later
Looking back on the pandemic that decimated the gay community.
By Thom Nickels
David Reel: Senator Everett Dirksen, a largely forgotten civil rights champion
Dirksen’s efforts ion the Senate made the proposed Civil Rights Act of 1964 a bipartisan success.
By David Reel
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: Flag of our fathers
The flag flies for all of us, and those who came before us.
By Michael Thomas Leibrandt