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Find the best history events and make the most of your time in Philadelphia. From music to science and more, we have the biggest event range and best discovery experience, there's something for everyone.
Love exploring subway history? Then this tour is for you. Theme: WHAT IS, WAS, and NEVER WAS. Meet inside 30th Street Station at the angel statue on the east side of the main hall. After meeting at the angel statue, we will walk outside the station to understand the reason for submerging the original elevated structure back in the 1950s. After riding the underground trolley eastbound, we see where the El originally circled City Hall. Continuing on the Market-Frankford Subway/El east, we emerge from the subway at Spring Garden Station and learn about the elevated line that went directly to Penn’s Landing 100 years ago. Returning west, we end at the enormous, multi-modal 69th Street Terminal filled with subways, trolleys, buses, and interurbans. Guide Jerry Silverman was born to give this tour. He was the very first rider ever on PATCO as a teenager and later the chair of the SEPTA Citizen Advisory Committee.
Explore the iconic bar's 165-year history. Learn about the history of McGillin's, Philly's Oldest Tavern, on National Beer Day with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Celebrate IDMS with a guided tour of Founder's Hall including some behind-the-scenes spaces
Explore the dense history of Philadelphia's historically Jewish neighborhood - 2 miles, 2 hours. This walk begins with an introduction to early Jewish life in Philadelphia, and then continues to explore the rest of the “Jewish Quarter,” pointing out sites of former bathhouses, shuls, newspapers, theaters, stores, social service buildings, union halls, banks and hospitals, as well as the still-active Society Hill Synagogue and Congregation B'nai Abraham. Hear about the dramatic Kosher butcher strike of 1911, learn about the Jews arrested on Yom Kippur in 1889, hear the ongoing debate over the first hot-dog roll, and discover the true story of the Three Stooges.
Join KPCP for a screening and discussion of the documentary, Taking Root. Taking Root is a community-produced documentary series that amplifies the untold stories of Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugee Philadelphians who resettled in the city after the U.S. Wars in Southeast Asia. Through 12 firsthand accounts, the series explores how imperialist violence shaped intergenerational trauma—and presents a powerful narrative of political transformation within Southeast Asian refugee communities.