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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

PA Press Club with Scott Wagner, Republican for Governor Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.

This week on It’s History! we tour the largest history museum in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. The museum features a range of exhibits on Western Pennsylvania history including some notable figures such as Mr. Rogers and H.J. Heinz and the world renowned company he built. We will […]

Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America’s unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist’s death, is the full story of his life […]

The PA State Police Museum tells the story of more than 100 years of State Police service. Join It’s History! as we learn about the State Police rodeo, the Camp Hill prison riots, the largest manhunt in PA history, and the meaning of the elements of the State Police patch. The museum is located next […]

Trumpet Call to Victory tells the story of a small parochial high school located in the Pennsylvania coalfields that reached the summit of basketball glory in the late 1960s. Glorious victories and heartbreaking defeats are chronicled on Saint Gabriel’s path to capturing multiple state championships. Unsung heroes and scholastic superstars take center stage during what, […]

Come along with It’s History! on a tour of the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University. The Heritage Center is located at a 19th century farmstead and includes a stone farmhouse, barn, summer kitchen, and a one-room schoolhouse. Join It’s History! to learn more about 19th century Pennsylvania Dutch culture and lifestyle. Watch It’s History! and […]