Join professional genealogist Frank Southcott for a free Irish genealogy workshop at HSP on Wednesday December 3 from 6-7 pm. Register now to save your seat!

In celebration of Family History Month this October, HSP is offering a full slate of genealogy workshops and events over the next few weeks!

In 1903, political cartoonists – especially one man, Charles Nelan – made the governor of Pennsylvania so mad that he criminalized cartooning.

You read that right. Gov. Samuel Pennypacker and his allies pushed through a law that made it illegal in Pennsylvania to publish or even draw cartoons that portrayed people (i.e. politicians) as "beast, bird, fish, insect, or other inhuman animal." Who knew that cartoons could inspire such passion, such outrage, such . . . legislative willpower?!