We Love PA History!

"The road to Pennsylvania, for Penn, began in the Cork prison 15 years before he set foot in America."    You can't understand Pennsylvania history - "The Holy Experiment" - without knowing about William Penn. There's no better source than the man who wrote the biography of William Penn. Reflecting his interest in the intersections between political theory and politic...

MICHAEL L. NORRIS                                             Executive Director As the Executive Director of the Carpenters’ Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, which owns and manages Carpenters’ Hall, a National Historic Landmark in Philadelphia’s historic district whose members constitute the nation’s oldest continuously operating craft guild, Michael oversees all of the Company’s p...

Andrea Lowery is the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) and PHMC is the official history agency of the Commonwealth. Andrea shares how PHMC stewards the history and heritage of Pennsylvania through its bureaus  (State Museum, State Archives, State Historic Preservation Office, and Bureau of Historic Sites and Museums) and programs such as the blue and...

Welcome to We Love PA History! - the podcast that explores Pennsylvania's past, one story at a time.