Digital Media Professor Glen Muschio is part of a team of Drexel College of Engineering faculty who have just received a National Science Foundation grant of over $700,000 for work on 3- D Colonial ...

At first, they found just a few bones. Then they dug up an entire coffin. And then another. A construction crew working on a new building in Philadelphia on Thursday uncovered dozens of coffins buried ...

Millions of people visit Philadelphia to see the Liberty Bell and walk through Independence Hall each year. But now, Historic Philadelphia Inc. is making it possible for tour-goers to travel back in ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Kids are learning about history in a fashionable way. A new program in Philadelphia's historic district allows children to wear colonial costumes as they tour the sites.

A large painting of Benjamin Franklin signing the Constitution hangs within the foyer of the new Mormon temple in Center City — just to the right of a portrait of a Jesus Christ, his arms stretched ...

Before the 1862 Oley Valley Turnpike was opened from Pikeville to Black Bear Tavern, facilitating later trade with the town of Reading, many Colonial styled Conestoga wagons, like the surviving 1803 ...

On a recent Monday night, Jessica Choppin Roney did something out of character during one of her lectures about how people became engaged in politics in Philadelphia’s Colonial days. “I’ve never had a ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - In these oppressive temperatures, all of us are wearing the lightest clothing in our closet! But the actors who portray Philadelphia's famous from the colonial era don't have that ...