Some historic moments feel more obvious than others — it’s clear things are going to be different afterward.
The COVID-19 pandemic was one such moment, and the people who...
How did a young woman from the Midwest find her way to the bloodiest and fiercest fought battle on D-Day? Her name is not often associated with the beaches of Normandy, y...
Benjamin Franklin’s home in Philadelphia was torn down more than 200 years ago, but visitors to the city can still catch a glimpse of the life he lead there.
The National...
While the unofficial motto of United States Postal Service is “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their a...
Harmony Museum
Address: 218 Mercer St., Harmony, Pa.
Phone: 724-452-7341
Open: 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday
Of Note: The museum, one o...
When Charles Flowers started working as a gunsmith in the 1850s in Harmony, he was taking up a very old trade in Pennsylvania.
Gunmakers from Europe, particularly from Ge...
One track on Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department," honors a long-celebrated, oft-miscast heroine of American feminism: actress Clara Bow.
As historia...
The transformation of the United States from a country of farmers into an industrial powerhouse began in the textile industry of Great Britain, gained momentum in this co...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for his first term as U.S. president in March 1933, the nation was in shambles.
A little more than three years earlier, in Octo...
At first glance, the blue-collar town of Saxonburg may not look like anything out of the ordinary, but the history of the 200-year-old borough proves unusual and bizarre ...