Historical society

Throughout Pennsylvania, many organizations have taken up the challenge of chronicling the history of their local communities. Whether run mostly by volunteers or a paid staff, these organizations have the daunting task of preserving the

The Astoria of the mid to late-nineteenth century was a frontier seaport and a land of contrasts and contradictions. Vice & Virtue explores early tensions through historic photos, artifacts from the era, and a recreated saloon.

Chippewa Drug Company, 4201 South Kingshighway. Photograph by W.C. Persons, 1940s. Missouri History Museum Photograph and Prints collection.

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Bensalem Historical Society Fundraiser at Friendly's.

Randall Stephens The latest issue of HS is now up on the Project Muse site. It is a longer issue than normal, featuring two forums, five essays, and four interviews. Readers might be especially interested in our forum on Geoffrey Parker’s Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Yale University Press, 2013), one of the most important history books of the last year. As Don Yerxa puts it in the intro to the forum: "It has been widely heralded as an…

The arrival of the daguerreotype in the 1840s could not have come at a more fortuitous time for

African-American boys holding American flags in Montgomery, Alabama - 25 March 1965. (Image: Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty)