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."
He wasn't exactly a native son of the Lehigh Valley, but many thought of Fred Waring as one, anyway.
It is the early morning hours of July 30, 1916, minutes before the Black Tom Island munitions dump explosion in Jersey City, N.J. will awaken half the east coast, changing history.
Back when Hollywood used to make historical movies about the Revolutionary War period, no film was complete without the stereotypical Tory. But when it came to reality, at least with Doan Boys of Bucks County’s Plumstead Township, this stereotype was turned on its head.
On a recent July morning, with sunshine dappling the fluttering green trees and a summer breeze taking the edge off the already rising humidity, a small group of people walked down Bethlehem’s High Street toward the historic Nisky Hill cemetery.
In the spring of 1951, the Muhlenberg College administration had a decision to make.
The attempts and ultimate success of Europeans and their decedents to take over the New World from its original inhabitants is a long one.
Andrew Reeder had been appointed governor of the violence-wracked territory of Kansas
On March 24, 1941, the workers went out on strike. By 11 p.m. the police estimated there were 2,500 people, strikers, women and children at the company’s main gate.
It began with an enterprising fellow named William “Billy” Ritz.
Anne Royall (1769-1854), a travel writer with a national reputation, is sometimes hailed as America’s first female journalist.
Hurricane Diane killed 400 along the East Coast, 91 in eastern Pennsylvania and 70 in Monroe County. Property damage was in the millions.
On May 19th, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission issued a press release with interest to local historians and the general public alike.
Last September, the city of Philadelphia suffered a great loss. A decision by its current owners led to Hahnemann University Hospital, since 1848 one of the city’s pioneering medical institutions and today serving mostly the poor, closing its doors.
