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Has Gettysburg Kicked Its Kitsch Factor?
Historian Tony Horwitz travels to the Civil War battlefield and finds that even where time is frozen, it’s undergone welcome changes
April 2013 |
By Tony Horwitz
Forty Years of Philadelphia Sound
Songwriters Leon Huff and Kenneth Gamble composed tunes with political messages for chart-toppers like the O’Jays and Billy Paul
February 18, 2011 |
By Jim Morrison
The Story of Bartram's Garden
Outside of Philadelphia, America's first botanical garden once supplied seeds to Founding Fathers and continues to inspire plant-lovers today
April 13, 2010 |
By Robin T. Reid
Ireland's Forgotten Sons Recovered Two Centuries Later
In Pennsylvania, amateur archaeologists unearth a mass grave of immigrant railroad workers who disappeared in 1832
April 2010 |
By Abigail Tucker
Eastern State Penitentiary: A Prison With a Past
Philadelphia set the stage for prison reform not only in Pennsylvania, but also the world over
October 01, 2008 |
By Chai Woodham
Patricia Zaradic, Conservation Ecologist, Pennsylvania
The trouble with "videophilia"
April 2008 |
By Megan Gambino
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Most Beautiful Work
Fallingwater, a southwest Pennsylvania house designed by the famous architect, allows residents to live within a waterfall
January 2008 |
By Eric Jaffe
Pennsylvania
American democracy was born in Philadelphia, and the Republic faced challenges at Valley Forge and Gettysburg. Pennsylvania played a pivotal role in United States history, but today its major cities are home to great arts institutions and important technological research. Beyond the cities, Pennsylvania's countryside includes breathtaking wilderness areas, hidden architectural gems and charming Amish towns.
November 06, 2007 |
By Smithsonian.com
Forgotten Forest
Photographic plates discovered in a dusty shed offer an astonishing look at life in the American woods more than a century ago
February 2006 |
By Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell
Luminous Joy in the City of Steel
W. Eugene Smith captured the grit and beauty of industrial Pittsburgh
June 2002 |
By Adam Rogers
A Darkness in Donora
When smog killed 20 people in a Pennsylvania mill town in 1948, the clean air movement got its start
November 1999 |
By Edwin Kiester, Jr.
