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​​The AAMP Celebrates and Commemorates Black History Month and offers inclusive programming for visitors of all ages and backgrounds, bringing together diverse audiences in greater appreciation of the Black Experience. Various events/times/prices

Book Signing Event Featuring the Authors: Zuddy L. Ogogo Sonia N. Benzz Rev. Joe Williams Milan Stevens

Historian Sheilah Vance will discuss her new book highlighting The Gulph Mills Encampment revealing the fascinating details of Washington's and the Continental Army's last stand before they moved into winter quarters at Valley Forge in 1777. Prequel to Becoming Valley Forge, a historical novel.

Dr. Daisy Century embodies her role as a Historical Interpreter by becoming the historical figures whose stories she wants to illuminate to the audience.

Join music historian Kit O’Toole, who will explore how American rock and roll shaped the sound and songwriting of The Beatles. O’Toole will trace the musical threads that helped create one of the most iconic catalogs in popular music.

Come learn about Genealogy and get started on researching your ancestors! Learn how to set up your family tree and figure out what the Ancestry DNA kits are all about. Or get help with your current research! Feel free to bring your own laptop/tablet, but we do have a few to borrow.

Join the Delco Gives team and three partners from the Radnor/Wayne Collaborative: Women's Resource Center, Radnor Educational Foundation, and Wayne Senior Center, for an interactive, in-person session to learn about their successful Delco Gives partnership in 2025.

Preservation Leadership Forum brings together three experts in state historic tax credits (HTCs) to share how New York, Kansas, and Maine each greatly improved their programs in 2025.

In these lectures, renowned local architects, professors, and historians explore the political, economic, and design trends that drove Philadelphia’s development. $60-100/series, $10-15 single. Re-discovering the Hidden Histories and Inspirations of the Centennial Exhibition

In this talk, Professor Nicholas Wood explores the origins, passage, and implementation of the nation’s first abolition law: Pennsylvania’s 1780 Gradual Abolition Act. He traces the law’s ideological roots to Quaker responses to the French and Indian War and the later Revolutionary War.

Feminist philosopher Dr. Lindsey Stewart tells the stories of Negro Mammies of slavery; the Voodoo Queens and Blues Women of Reconstruction; and the Granny Midwives and textile weavers of the Jim Crow era. These women, in secrecy and subterfuge, courageously and devotedly continued their practices.

Each year, YFPA chooses a site that deserves public attention and decorates it with paper hearts, known as heart-showering. Join YFPA to craft valentines ahead of the showering on 14th.

Author Jeffrey E. Finegan Sr. will discuss the book first-person account of Washington’s remarkable life, told by his oldest friend and family physician Dr. James Craik, who met him during the French and Indian War … and was there when our first president died. $10

Listen, contribute and reflect on historical events and people. History buffs are welcome to this forum where we will focus on a different topic each session. February 13: Barack Obama

Each year, YFPA chooses a site that deserves public attention and decorates it with paper hearts, known as heart-showering. Join YFPA to place valentines that were crafted on 2/12

Join baroque cellist and music historian Eve Miller and enjoy some of Johann Sebastian Bach’s most beloved compositions in Pennsylvania’s oldest church. She’ll play and talk about the 2nd and 3rd suites, along with music of Supriani, Gabrielli and Dall’Abaco. Reception after. $30

On June 2, 1700, Philadelphia’s Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’) Church had its “grand opening.” Celebrate its 325th anniversary with a guided tour led by historian and archivist Jeanette Woehr, who will describe the history of this church, and talk about many important historical figures buried there. $15

We meet history's earliest documented physician, Imhotep, and the earliest documented dentist, Hesy-re. We examine the role of magic and herbs in ancient Egyptian medicine, look at cases outlining specific surgical intervention, and we examine an actual case of what was perhaps successful surgery.