Three days before the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson purchased a thermometer from a local Philadelphia merchant while he was in town for the signing. He also ...

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When we fire up the grill on the Fourth of July, few of us take time to consider what “independence” is all about. We live in the land of liberty. We celebrate freedom. But independence? The ...

Workers also were dismissed at Gettysburg National Military Park and Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton.

Yambo’s plan to cut the size of the federal government reached into Pennsylvania over the weekend with employees being ...