In the deciding game of the 1992 National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves, the Pittsburgh Pirates suffered the most dramatic and devastating loss in team history when former Pirate Sid Bream slid home with the winning run. Bream’s infamous slide ended the last game played by Barry Bonds in a Pirates uniform and […]

Before the development of mechanical cooling systems, ice was harvested from frozen lakes and rivers and transported around the world. Housed in a stone barn built in 1834, the museum includes tools, hand-carved wooden ice chests and coolers, wagons and trucks, and memorabilia from the natural ice trade era. Join It’s History for a tour […]

Founded in 1682 by a society that had no military, eschewed violence as a means of solving conflicts, and tolerated a wide variety of religions, Pennsylvania began as a “peaceable kingdom”—but war was essential to both Pennsylvania’s founding and its history. Pennsylvania was the site of some of the most important military events in American […]

The Eldred World War II Museum is located in northern Pennsylvania near the site of the National Munitions Company. The museum educates visitors about the war, and serves to spotlight the contributions made by the local munitions workers, most of whom were women. A wide array of exhibits are on display including: the Eastern Front, […]

“The Framers’ Coup” narrates how the Framers’ clashing interests shaped the Constitution–and American history itself. The Philadelphia convention could easily have been a failure, and the risk of collapse was always present. Had the convention dissolved, any number of adverse outcomes could have resulted, including civil war or a reversion to monarchy. Not only does […]

The York County History Center Fire Museum is located in the old Royal Fire House built in 1903. The museum includes hand-pulled pumps, six fire trucks, uniforms, a collection of historical firefighting equipment and more. Watch It’s History! and more PA History and Culture on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.

PA Press Club with Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.

Pittsburgh’s drinking culture is a story of its people: vibrant, hardworking and innovative. During Prohibition, the Hill District became a center of jazz, speakeasies and creative cocktails. In the following decades, a group of Cuban bartenders brought the nightlife of Havana to a robust café culture along Diamond Street. Disco clubs gripped the city in […]

The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic fashion item of the flapper culture […]

Rural Northeastern Pennsylvania was a bucolic farming region in the 1800s—but political tensions churned below the surface. When a group of fugitive slaves dared to settle in the Underground Railroad village of Waverly, near Scranton, before the Civil War, they encountered a mix of support from abolitionists and animosity from white supremacists. Once the war […]