Founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, the Library Company’s collection includes rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, prints, photographs, and works of art. Join It’s History! as we explore the Library Company and its collection of books on women’s history, an exhibit on the 18th century massacre of the Conestoga, and more. It’s History! airs Sunday […]
PA Books: Stolen
“Stolen” tells the story of five young, free black boys who fall into the clutches of a fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in Philadelphia in 1825. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive […]
PCN Profiles, David Cohen, Senior Executive Vice President, Comcast
David Cohen, Senior Executive Vice President of Comcast, announced last December that he would begin stepping away from his operational responsibilities with the company. As he begins to scale back his enormous workload, Mr. Cohen took the time to talk with PCN about his storied career. A Philadelphia titan, Cohen has spent the vast majority […]
PA Books: “Blue-Collar Conservatism”
The postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who brought figures like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump to the White House. “Blue-Collar Conservatism” traces the rise of this little-understood, easily caricatured variant of populism by presenting a nuanced portrait of the supporters […]
PCN Tours: Shriners Hospitals for Children in Philadelphia
Shriners Hospitals for Children, Philadelphia Pediatric Orthotic and Prosthetic Services is an in-house facility at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Philadelphia. They specialize in making custom orthopedic braces and artificial limbs to meet the unique needs of each patient. They offer a full range of upper and lower extremity orthotics and prosthetics for a wide […]
“Little Italy in the Great War”
The Great War challenged all who were touched by it. Italian immigrants, torn between their country of origin and country of relocation, confronted political allegiances that forced them to consider the meaning and relevance of Americanization. In his engrossing study, “Little Italy in the Great War,” Richard Juliani focuses on Philadelphia’s Italian community to understand […]
“The Disaffected”
Elizabeth and Henry Drinker of Philadelphia were no friends of the American Revolution. Yet neither were they its enemies. The Drinkers were a merchant family who, being Quakers and pacifists, shunned commitments to both the Revolutionaries and the British. They strove to endure the war uninvolved and unscathed. They failed. In 1777, the war came […]
Keystone Cuisine: Elwood Restaurant, Philadelphia PA
The Elwood Restaurant is a new establishment that focuses on Pennsylvania-inspired food. Owner and Chef Adam Diltz shares his passion for cooking and PA cuisine in this Fishtown-neighborhood restaurant. Adam gives us a tour of his 26-seat restaurant and shows us how to make a dish the way his great-grandmother used to make it – […]
PCN Profiles: Larry Krasner, Philadelphia District Attorney, Sept. 8, 2019
Larry Krasner was elected Philadelphia’s 26th District Attorney in 2017, and took office in 2018. During his tenure, Mr. Krasner has sought to spearhead criminal justice reform by ending bail payments for low-level offenders, reducing supervision for parolees and seeking more lenient sentences for certain crimes. Prior to his government service, Mr. Krasner earned degrees […]
PA Books: “Frank Furness: Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines”
Frank Furness (1839-1912) has remained a curiosity to architectural historians and critics, somewhere between an icon and an enigma, whose importance and impact have yet to be properly evaluated or appreciated. To some, his work pushed pattern and proportion to extremes, undermining or forcing together the historic styles he referenced in such eclectic buildings as […]