One of the most interesting press events I’ve ever attended was at the Museum of the American Revolution in 2021. […]
John Rossi: Four Quarters and me
One of the pleasures of my fifty plus years teaching at La Salle College, then University, was the school’s literary […]
From the Editors: Return to the State of the Union of Thomas Jefferson’s ideal
This week, President Donald Trump gave the State of the Union address, a nationally televised spectacle in which presidents fulfill […]
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: Love and table tennis
Like all over America, life was hard around Valentine’s Day of 1934 in Depression-era Philadelphia. And like all aspects of […]
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 […]
John Rossi: When Olney was a ‘suburb’
I grew up in the years just after World War II in a pleasant contained place that I call Lower […]
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: Even the elements can’t stop Philadelphia from parading
On the same day that the World Champion Philadelphia Eagles ended their bid for a repeat championship in South Philly […]
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, […]
Robert Cherry: The Philadelphia slavery exhibit is seriously flawed
There has been outrage in some quarters over the announcement that the Trump Administration would be reevaluating the “Freedom and […]
Philadelphia scientist shares Holocaust survival story at local film premiere
Michael Fryd still has nightmares that he is running down a staircase to escape German soldiers. There’s an opening at […]