By the 1770s, abolitionism was a full-scale movement in Pennsylvania. Led by such Quaker activists as Anthony Benezet and John Woolman, many Philadelphia slaveholders of all denominations had ...

The only thing that would have been odd to the Founding Fathers, many of who were multilingual, was an English-only country.

So he was very important if not vital to the early years of Western Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. In fact, I consider him one of the founding fathers of Pittsburgh, despite his story not being told ...

Charter Day observes the 344th anniversary of the founding of Pennsylvania in 1681, the year King Charles II signed a charter on March 4, granting William Penn land between Maryland and New York ...