In “Playing Through The Whistle,” celebrated sportswriter S. L. Price tells the story of this remarkable place, its people, its players, and, through it, a wider story of American history from the turn of the twentieth century. Aliquippa has been many things—a rigidly controlled company town, a booming racial and ethnic melting pot, a battleground […]

The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia tells the story of America from the revolutionary crisis to the War of Independence to the efforts to create a new nation. Exhibits include a life-size reproduction of Boston’s Liberty Tree, George Washington’s headquarters tent, and a privateer ship. The Battlefield Theater lets you virtually experience what […]

Auditor General Eugene DePasquale news conference on the audit of the State Employees’ Retirement System. Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.

Bobby Rydell writes of his encounters with such giants of 20th century show business as Frank Sinatra, Ann-Margret, The Beatles, Red Skelton, Jack Benny and Dick Clark, whose Philly-based American Bandstand helped make Rydell the world’s biggest teen idol in the years between Elvis Presley’s army induction and the advent of Beatlemania. Rydell also delves […]

The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia showcases more than 65 racing sports cars. From a 1909 Underslung Traveler to a 1975 Alfa Romeo Tipo-33, the collection features sports cars manufactured by Ferrari, Ford, Bugatti, Mercedes, Jaguar, Bentley, Porsche, Aston Martin, and more. The museum tells the story of sports car racing in Europe and […]

When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital, after a brief stay in New York. In setting up his household he took Tobias Lear, his celebrated secretary, and nine slaves, including Ona Judge, about which little has been […]

Join “It’s History” as we explore the Daniel Boone Homestead. Frontiersman Daniel Boone was born in 1734 on this farm in Birdsboro, PA before his family moved to North Carolina. We’ll learn about Boone’s childhood as re-enactors show what life was like on an 18th century farm. The tour includes a functioning water-powered sawmill, a […]

PA Press Club with Rick Bloomingdale, President, PA AFL-CIO. Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.

Veteran journalist Jennifer Lin takes readers from remote nineteenth-century mission outposts to Philadelphia to the thriving house churches and cathedrals of today’s China. The Lin family—and the book’s central figure, the Reverend Lin Pu-chi—offer witness to China’s tumultuous past, up to and beyond the betrayals and madness of the Cultural Revolution, when the family’s resolute […]

The National Museum of Industrial History is housed in a shop building on the old Bethlehem Steel site. The museum includes more than 200 artifacts from the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and Bethlehem’s textile industry and it tells the story of America’s industrialization with historic machinery on loan from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. […]