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When news reached Parliament of the Boston radicals' destruction of the Royal East India C... more

The untold story of how America's declaration of independence hinged on seven critical mon... more

From December 12-19, 1777, Washington's Army encamped in the towering hills of Gulph Mills... more

In summer 2023, Chester County, Pennsylvania, was shaken by the daring escape of convicted... more

Learn about the stories of the men and women who traveled across the mountain ranges and t... more

Pittsburgh contains multitudes. From the decline of the steel industry and the exodus of a... more

From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh's Hill District was the heart of the city's B... more

A born daredevil, John Homan joined the Army Air Forces after the attack on Pearl Harbor. ... more

From the origins of "Penn's Woods" to the controversial practice of fracking, Cradle of Co... more

"Never To Be Forgotten" tells the story of York County Pennsylvania residents just living ... more

Take a new definitive look through the eyes of a misunderstood backcountry merchant, Major... more

Philadelphia is famous for its colonial and revolutionary buildings and artifacts, but Phi... more

Gathering a treasure trove of powerful, rare, and haunting original documents, New York Ti... more

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the Keystone State's formal and informal... more

In 1918, Bethlehem Steel started the world's greatest industrial baseball league. Appealin... more

Beginning in the early 1990s, Pittsburgh's South Side neighborhood began to transform from... more

In 1917, at the start of World War I, among global war and a global pandemic, Harrisburger... more

George Washington has frequently been criticized for his first military campaign, which sp... more

In late 1975 and early 1976, at the height of the Cold War, two of the Soviet Union's long... more

"Telling of the Anthracite" explores the various ways in which anthracite history has been... more

Irving College was the first college to offer degrees in the arts and sciences to women an... more

Of the more than seventy sites associated with the Civil War era that the National Park Se... more

The September 11, 1777, battle of Brandywine, a defeat for General George Washington, is t... more

Turbulent rapids and wild shorelines of the Youghiogheny River highlight natural wonders o... more

The British Army in North America conducted two campaigns in 1777. John Burgoyne led one a... more

The first installment (June 3-22, 1863) carried the armies through the defining mounted cl... more

In 1777, Congress labeled Quakers who would not take up arms in support of the War of Inde... more

Historic Philadelphia has long yielded archaeological treasures from its past. Excavations... more