PA Books: “Mr. All-Around: The Life of Tom Gola”

Tom Gola is a Philadelphia Big Five basketball icon. He led La Salle to the NIT championship in 1952 and the NCAA championship in 1954, and holds the NCAA record for most rebounds in a career. Gola also helped the Philadelphia Warriors win the NBA championship as a rookie in 1956 and was named an […]

PA Books: “For the Love of Beer: Pennsylvania’s Breweries”

“For the Love of Beer: Pennsylvania’s Breweries” examines Pennsylvania’s brewing history, geography, and cultural richness while highlighting over 100 of the states thriving craft breweries. It explains some of the enjoyable stories and local legends behind the naming of beers, while detailing the unique buildings and architectural treasures that contribute to the renovation of urban […]

PA Books: “Frontier Rebels”

Frontier Rebels tells story of the “Black Boys,” a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765. In 1763, the Seven Years’ War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing that the British Empire would expand onto their lands and conquer them, […]

PA Books: The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania

The Scots Irish were one of early Pennsylvania’s largest non-English immigrant groups. They were stereotyped as frontier ruffians and Indian haters. In The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania, historian Judith Ridner insists that this immigrant group was socio-economically diverse. Servants and free people, individuals and families, and political exiles and refugees from Ulster, they not […]

It’s History!: Rolls-Royce Foundation

Come along with It’s History! on a tour of classic Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars at the Rolls-Royce Foundation in Mechanicsburg, PA. The cars include a 1929 Rolls-Royce Springfield Phantom, a 1959 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I, and a 1936 Bentley 3 ½ litre. In addition to cars, the Foundation includes a research library and a restoration and […]

PA Books: “Lair of the Lion”

Historian Lee Stout and engineering professor Harry H. West show how Penn State’s Beaver Stadium came to be, including a look at its predecessors, “Old” Beaver Field, built in 1893 on a site centrally located northeast of Old Main, and “New” Beaver Field, built on the northwest corner of campus in 1909. Stout and West […]

It’s History!: American Helicopter Museum

The American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, PA tells the story of rotary-wing aviation from autogiros to the V-22 Tilt-Rotor Osprey. Exhibits include a bubble-canopied Bell 47D-1 made popular by the TV show MASH, a twin-rotor CH-46 Sea Knight, Cobra attack helicopters, a Sikorsky HH-3 Sea King, and more. Join It’s History! as museum guides […]