The countdown to the 250th anniversary of American independence has begun—here are 9 museum exhibitions to add to your ...

Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

Most Americans, however, will associate America’s 250th with Philadelphia on Independence Day 2026. Though unfair to all the ...

The American Philosophical Society in Old City is using AI to transcribe thousands of Revolutionary-era documents.

A Man Full of Trouble is Philadelphia’s last remaining example of colonial bar culture that birthed the American Revolution.

Establishing freedom of religion was a hard-fought success of the American Founding. Today we are still fighting.

A Church sui iuiris is a distinct community of faithful within a rite of the Church. For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one ...

Independence National Historical Park hosts some of the nation’s preeminent places of history. But what was the area like ...

In South Philadelphia, separated by a little more than half a mile, two 19th-century churches designed by famed architect ...

Cycling enthusiasts particularly love the paved Joseph Plumb Martin Trail, which provides a smooth ride with frequent stops ...

It is Christmas Eve in the year of Huitzilopochtli, 1969. Three hundred Chicanos have gathered in front of St. Basil’s Roman Catholic Church. Three hundred brown-eyed children of the sun have come to ...