The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission will offer free admission to state-owned historic sites along the Pennsylvania Trails of History on Saturday, September 24. The Pennsylvania Trails of ...

DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — In a few years the United States will celebrate its 250th birthday, and there is now an effort to help Pennsylvania’s youth learn about the history of the Commonwealth.

SOMERFIELD, Pa. (WHTM) — Once a symbol of early American achievement, submerged under more than 50 feet of water over a century later, a piece of Pennsylvania history is now bone dry. The Great ...

OPEN ITS DOORS AND NEWSY’S TOM LEHMAN GOT A TOUR OF THE FACILITY. PENNSYLVANIA’S NEW STATE ARCHIVES BUILDING IS THE PLACE WHERE MANY OF PENNSYLVANIA’S MOST TREASURED DOCUMENTS ARE BEING DIGITIZED, AS ...

A portion of what was once the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad curves around a former flour mill in York County. Fewer Pennsylvanians ride the state’s rail these days, but a network of train lovers ...

February is Black History Month. Last week, state officials unveiled a new Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission exhibit at the Capitol called, "Trailblazers: Notable African Americans in ...

It should come as no surprise that Pennsylvania has a ton of history. Some of it everyone knows: the Declaration of Independence, the Liberty Bell, the Constitution, the winter Washington spent at ...

Every five years since the Battle of Gettysburg, interest in the Civil War is renewed. Many Civil War writers and researchers give more focus on the military and political parts of this bloody ...

Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 87, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: HARRISBURG, DIGITAL PUBLIC HISTORY, AND THE “CITY BEAUTIFUL” (Winter 2020), pp. 148-154 (7 pages) ABSTRACT: When ...

During the 1800s, Pennsylvania was at the epicenter of the rye whiskey industry. Prohibition caused most of the distilleries to close, and the state’s legacy was forgotten. From Philly and the Pa.