Historians and biographers often speculate why young Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who apparently had a brilliant career ahead of him as an architect in England, left it all for the comparative wilderness of America.
Frederick Douglass was born an enslaved person- Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey- in 1818 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
World War I is becoming one of America’s forgotten wars. Ask the average American about it and many would not know what you are talking about.
Many people today have no memory of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. But back in the days of swing they were right up there in popularity on the Big Band stages with Glenn Miller and other stars.
Today, like many of those places, what remains of Laury’s Park are only fragments. But, in a new book, local author Laura Klotz brings that largely forgotten spot where Lehigh Valley residents once amused themselves to life again.
The real Marion Davies (1897-1961) in the early 1920s once played a bit part in Allentown history.
It was in 1892 that the idea of an Allentown Hospital was first suggested.
Allentown’s park system has many gems, but the Little Lehigh Trout Hatchery, three miles southwest of Allentown, attracts all those who are looking to combine a variety of relaxation, exercise and water views.
Spring was supposed to be only two days away. But for those who gathered on the chilly, rainy morning of March 19 ,1927 outside the Lehigh Valley Railroad Station in Allentown, it must have seemed a lot farther away.
On September 3, 1939 most of the world was transfixed by the outbreak of World War II in Europe. But another event was playing itself out.
How the fire started is not exactly clear.
The year is 1995. A construction crew in Bethlehem is busily at work when it comes across something it had not expected, a skeleton.
The year was 1919. World War I was over but a rising tide of anti-immigrant and anti-Semitism spurred on by fears of the Communist revolution in Russia and labor unrest at home was roiling the country.
It was 1862 and Tinsley Jeter was on his way to becoming one of the most prominent citizens of Bethlehem.
Recently the Bethlehem Area Public Library began what it called the Black Bethlehem Project.
In 1845, roughly when a part-time surveyor of Concord, Mass. named Thoreau was writing a book that would make him immortal, another surveyor was making a discovery that would change the course of the Lehigh Valley's industrial history.
Asa Packer’s story was one of rags to riches.
On the morning of August 6, 1945, many newspaper readers in the Lehigh Valley and around the world had one question: when would Japan surrender and World War II finally end?
It was perhaps for this reason that illicit sex held an allure that led to the scandal that surrounded the Limeport raid.
It might almost have been taken from a drone. That’s the first impression a modern visitor might get on seeing the painting “A View of Easton."
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