“You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way,”
Pennsylvania has 61 locations listed on the Network to Freedom, the National Park Service’s preservation of sites related to the Underground Railroad. Learn about 10 spots across the state widely recognized as key stops in helping Black Americans to escape enslavement.
Celebrate Groundhog Day 2026—and its ancient origins—at the popular Western Pa. event where you can catch a glimpse of the world’s most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil.
Paul Siple is from Erie, graduated from Allegheny College and became a U.S. Army major. He was a polar explorer, scientist and U.S. scientific attaché to Australia and New Zealand.
Dubbed the "Hilltop Murder," the 1945 killing of Joseph B. Campbell at his Millcreek home was "one of Erie County's most atrocious crimes," according to the Erie Daily Times.
More than 730 feet long, the "Fitz" had been the largest ore carrier on the lakes before the 1,000-foot Stewart J. Cort — built at Erie's Litton Industries marine division, now Donjon Shipbuilding — launched in 1972.
NEPA’s “twin cities” have some interesting history — and a pizza mecca between them.
The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma received 16 of its children, exhumed from a Pennsylvania cemetery, and reburied their small wooden coffins last month in a tribal cemetery in Concho, Oklahoma.
These facts about Harrisburg prove the capital city is more than state politics and budget impasses.
Some of America's first rich and powerful families spent time in Bucks County. It was also a stronghold for the Quaker community, which provided sanctuary for runaway slaves using the Underground Railroad.
