Love your local archives? Celebrate with us this month! The roster of happenings planned for the next few weeks include a quizzo night, a lantern slide salon, dynamic lectures, behind-the-scenes tours, and more events that will showcase the vibrant resources of Philadelphia's archives.

In 1775, the American Revolutionary War began in the British colonies on the Atlantic Coast of North America. Eight years later, these colonies won their independence from Great Britain, forming the United States of America. Despite the end of the war, the idea of independence has endured and evolved, becoming part of the American psyche.

Historic St. George’s Church located on 4th and New streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is American Methodism’s oldest church building in continuous service. Based in the teachings of John Wesley (1703-1791), Methodism is a protestant Christian faith. Methodists first began meeting at St. George’s in 1769- six years before the start of the American Revolution and fifteen years before the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in Baltimore, Maryland in 1784. Francis Asbury, one of the Methodist Episcopal Church’s first bishops, was a pastor at St.

Established in 1892, the Philadelphia Society of Free Letts, or Filadelfijas Brīvo Latvju Biedrība (BLB), is the oldest Latvian Society outside of Latvia.