Ronald Sklar

Americans’ long and sweaty love affair with municipal swimming pools is on the wane, but it’s left behind a sort of...

The Mary Tyler Moore Show quietly broke boundaries and, unlike most sitcoms that were on the prime-time schedule in 1970, was...

When Northeast Philadelphia High School picked up and moved to a newer neighborhood in 1957, the staff wasn’t shitting around.

In their book, Dr. Feelgood, authors Richard “Rick” Lertzman and Dr. William Birnes shoot a serious lethal injection into our present-day...

What if Elvis Presley hadn't been born in a trailer in Mississippi? What if he was born in a trailer in...

“I have always been very inquisitive and curious about people,” she says. “My tendency, when I am talking to people, is...

For years, an urban adventure must-see was one of Philadelphia’s most notorious and embarrassing shames: The State Hospital at Byberry.

In his memoir, “Nothin’ But Blue Skies,” Ted draws on a combination of personal memoirs and solid facts to illustrate the...

The history of Coca Cola is so long, intriguing, complicated and unpredictable that historian Mark Pendegrast had to create a third...