We Love PA History!
Exploring Pennsylvania's Past, One Story at a Time
Episodes
8 episodes
Ned Donoghue: Prisoners of Congress, Philadelphia's Quakers in Exile, 1777 to 1778
For over 245 years, historians have ignored the incidents that pitted the Patriots against the leaders of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Some publicly accused the Quaker leaders of being traitors ...
Judith Ridner: The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania, a Varied People
"...as probably many Scots-Irish people know, there's a lot of misunderstanding about who they are as a people. And I think a lot of modern Americans think one thing, and perhaps us historians would say that maybe they should be thinking about ...
Matt Gault: Fort Ligonier, and Washington's Brush with Death on the Battlefield
November 12, 1758. The story of Washington "putting his life in the most jeopardy it had ever been before or since:" "...Colonel Mercer is engaged with the enemy...He needs help. So Washington... takes a group of volunteers, mainly ...
Andy Masich, Heinz History Center: Sharing the Stories of People
"People are interested in the stories of people...""David McCullough, America's favorite historian, Pulitzer Prize winner, Adams, Truman, the Johnstown Flood, he used to say, he was actually quoting the librarian of Congress when he said...
Andrew Murphy: William Penn and "The Holy Experiment"
"The road to Pennsylvania, for Penn, began in the Cork prison 15 years before he set foot in America." You can't understand Pennsylvania history - "The Holy Experiment" - without knowing about William Penn. There's no...
Andrea Lowery, Why Pennsylvanians Love Our History
Andrea Lowery is the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) and PHMC is the official history agency of the Commonwealth. Andrea shares how PHMC stewards the history and heritage of Pennsylvania through ...