Frank Whelan recalls his friendship with renowned local historian Lance Metz
The 1893 fire completely destroyed the building at Sixth and Hamilton streets
She was hailed as one of the most powerful evangelists of her day
What to make of Jayne Mansfield?
Allentown’s Lewis G. Buehler had a passion for photography. A member of the city’s furniture making Buehler family, he watched in the 1940s, 50s and 60s as the city he knew and loved changed before his eyes.
WWI was at its height when a deadly swine flu pandemic swept the world and into the Lehigh Valley
ALLENTOWN, Pa. | Flashing lights, blinding smoke and the sound of fire engine truck tires screeching on the street.
Franz Henrich Oppelt established his spa on land that would later become St. Luke's Hospital
In 1783, America was enjoying its first peaceful summer as a new nation.
Before there was the Sun Inn, there was the Crown Inn.
In 1957 a juvenile dance group from New Tripoli known as the Little Jiggers stepped into the national spotlight with an appearance on Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour.
Who was this man who could soothe one of the Lehigh Valley’s leading men?
A new exhibit at Muhlenberg College traces the history of women there back 170 years.
It is a plain structure that once housed Native American converts to the Moravian Church, part of the missionary dream of Bethlehem’s founder Count von Zinzendorf. But it was a dream without a happy ending.
The happenings on Wall Street may seem far removed from the Lehigh Valley, but one of the first major financial scandals of the 20th century had a strong local link.
Kenneth Spangenberg received the Navy Cross for his heroic actions in combat aboard the USS San Francisco.
Recently it was disclosed that a recording was made of Armstrong on November 24, 1956 at Muhlenberg College.
Eugene Grace was at the helm of Bethlehem Steel for decades. He's long gone, but his mansion in Bethlehem is not.
'Now when I was a child all you ever heard about was Frank Buchman this, and Frank Buchman that. Yet today nobody knows who in the heck Frank Buchman was.'
'What I found amazed me. Here were people, particularly those from the Near East, whose past was like a hidden treasure.'
