In this episode of It’s History!, we visit the Fort Pitt Museum in downtown Pittsburgh. Join us as we learn about the history of Fort Pitt and its role in the French and Indian War. We will look at everyday life at the forks of the Ohio River in the 18th century and explore the […]

PA Press Club with Sen. Bob Casey, Democrat for U.S. Senate. Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.

The other great renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place—Pittsburgh, PA—from the 1920s through the 1950s. Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson’s famed plays about noble but doomed working-class strivers. But this community once had an impact on American history […]

The Lycoming College Senior Film Festival 2018 showcases student-produced documentary, experimental, and feature films. The festival is hosted by the Lycoming College Film & Video Arts Program.

Born in Gettysburg, PA only a dozen years after the bloody Civil War battle, Eddie Plank grew up on a farm and was a late-bloomer. By his early twenties, he was a local star on the town ball team and enrolled in the Gettysburg Academy in order to pitch for the Gettysburg College team. Soon […]

Join It’s History! as we tour the strange and unusual exhibits of the Gettysburg Dime Museum. Modeled after old circus sideshows, the museum features animal anomalies, sideshow gaffes, crime and serial killer memorabilia, and life-size representations of human oddities. Watch It’s History! and more PA History and Culture on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.

The 2018 Blue and White Film Festival showcases student-produced documentary, experimental, and feature films. The festival is sponsored by the Penn State Student Film Organization.  

With more than 12,000 items, the National Watch & Clock Museum in Columbia, PA showcases timekeeping devices from around the world. The museum tells the story of timekeeping from the earliest non-mechanical devices to today’s atomic clocks. Exhibits include 19th Century American clocks and watches, timepieces from China and Japan, old English tallcase clocks, and […]

Featuring over 900 color illustrations, Butterflies of Pennsylvania is the most comprehensive, user-friendly field guide to date of all of the species of butterflies and skippers ever recorded in Pennsylvania. Information on distinguishing marks, traits, wingspan, habitat, larval host plants, and handy facts offer assistance for field identification. County-by-county maps show where each species has […]

In this episode of It’s History!, we feature artifacts from the J. Howard Wert Collection. Wert was a native of the Gettysburg area and after the Civil War he was the first principle at Harrisburg High School. As Union and Confederate troops converged on the town, Wert served as a guide to the local area […]