On Jan. 29, 1820, 10 years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, Britain's King George III, who lost ...

A widely-known fact about the City of Wilkes-Barre is that its named after John Wilkes and Isaac Barre, members of the British Parliament who supported the American colonies during the American ...

William Pitt also shares another Pennsylvania municipality with his ... that eventually incorporated English control over the 13 Colonies. Did you also know Pittston was called Pittstown?

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Harrisburg founder John Harris, Jr., was no fan of the French after the French and Indian War, but last Saturday night, he ...

A sea captain and namesake of Conyngham Borough so harassed merchant ships that the English hesitated to sail around their ...

In Pennsylvania, William Penn’s Great Act (1682) made passed in the colonies [sic ... and reduced the number of capital offenses from thirteen to two. Virginia and Kentucky passed similar ...

The path toward equity in Austin education is long and fraught. Efforts to create fair learning opportunities for all ...

While the English document relied on legal history and grievances alone to make its argument, Jefferson united the grievances that the colonies ... Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman ...

Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassins bullet ripped through ... Our American ancestors ...

Pennsylvania’s senators, Dave McCormick (R-PA) and John Fetterman (D-PA), have rallied their state’s entire congressional ...