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Erie's Battle With Tuberculosis: How It Was Won

by Dr. Judith Lynch 4/28/2020, 11:00 AM

Dr. Katherine Law and our area's decades-long struggle against the infectious lung disease

What We're Binging: Local Podcasts

by Jonathan Burdick4/4/2020, 1:22 PM

Leadership in Crisis: Failure Is Not An Option

by Rebecca Styn3/28/2020, 4:30 PM

Apollo 13, COVID-19, and how we can adapt to adversity

History from Home

by Jonathan Burdick3/27/2020, 5:00 PM

Browsing the Internet Archive while quarantined can yield impressive results

What We're Binging: Local History Books

by Jonathan Burdick3/23/2020, 12:23 PM

Ten books by local authors worth diving into

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, Trump, and Social Distancing

by Jonathan Burdick3/19/2020, 1:37 PM

How lessons from Philadelphia's "Spanish Flu" are useful in the Coronavirus outbreak today

A New Vision for an Old Bakery

by Erin Phillips3/11/2020, 11:30 AM

Young business partners preserve fire, soul of Majestic Bakery

Unlocking the Legacy of The Pope Hotel

by Jonathan Burdick2/12/2020, 1:15 PM

How Erie's hub for black musicians thrived amidst adversity

A Journey of 5,000 Miles

by Rachel Harris-Huffman2/12/2020, 12:45 PM

How a Teotihuacan woman's skull traveled from the Valley of Mexico to Erie, PA and back again

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

by Erie Reader Staff1/20/2020, 12:00 PM

The iconic civil rights leader message is as powerful and resonant as ever

Our Erie Decade

by The Editors1/1/2020, 10:00 AM

Looking back on our community's last ten years

A Hero in the Midst of Cowards

by Jonathan Burdick12/4/2019, 1:00 PM

The righteous rage of John Brown

The Story of the Erie Triangle

by Jonathan Burdick11/20/2019, 10:45 AM

How Pennsylvania's early expansion was fraught with tension and threats of war

Back to the Future

by Erin Phillips9/11/2019, 12:00 PM

A Lustron history in Erie

Edinboro Highland Games & Scottish Festival Return for 26th Year

by Hannah McDonald8/28/2019, 11:30 AM

Six-day celebration of Scottish traditions

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