For women who hoped to become physicians in the mid-1800s, Philadelphia was the place to be. They came from all over the ...

Historically, women have always cared for the sick in their communities as healers, medicine women, and midwives. But only men were allowed to get formal medical training. It wasn’t until 1849 that ...

The groundbreaking establishment of the Women’s Medical College in 1850 by a group of progressive Quaker businessmen, and the many achievements of its graduates, will be celebrated at an event at ...

Pottsgrove Manor, a headquarters for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, is now home to colonial-era examples of resistance.

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The Schofield School has a proud history. Founded in 1866 by Quaker abolitionist and suffragist Martha Schofield and under ...

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Emergency officials in Jefferson County say multiple area crews were called to the scene of a garage fire in Punxsutawney Borough early Friday afternoon.Accordi ...

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Meet seven trailblazing women who transformed medicine, from the first female doctors to Nobel Prize-winning scientists.