As tensions grew between American colonists and the British crown, the strategic importance of the largest, wealthiest colony ...

April 19 marks 250 years since the first gunfire of the American Revolution rang out at 5:30 a.m. northwest of Boston. It was ...

Of the 13 colonies, nine voted in favor of the Declaration, two -- Pennsylvania and South Carolina -- voted No, Delaware was undecided and New York abstained. John Hancock, President of the ...

He later moved to Pennsylvania with his wife ... was one of the first works of abolitionist writing published in the Thirteen Colonies. Though his principles of abolitionism, opposition to ...

The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...

In 2017 so far, the Office of Attorney General has charged 109 persons with insurance fraud, and Pennsylvania courts have ordered more than $655,000 in restitution be paid. In 2016, 203 people ...

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