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

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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 ...

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 ...

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Programming for America’s 250th anniversary highlights the legacy of the country’s first — and last — all-women medical college, which was founded in 1850.

Private Somerville MacPherson enlisted in Vernon, B.C., and received a Military Medal for bravery. Corporal Frank Jancey, a ...

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Amazing America’s Kevin Kotwas takes a deep dive into two St. Patty's Day traditions that were made in America.

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

Huntley became one of the country’s most reviled killers after he was jailed for the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman ...

HUNTINGDON, Pa. (WTAJ) — The demolition of the JC Blair Memorial Hospital Nurses’ Home is officially underway next to Penn Highlands Huntingdon. After roughly 100 years, the first work on razing the ...