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In 1776 people could hear the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in public squares and could read it in the pages of their local newspapers. Learn the stories behind how the Declaration was communicated in the United States and around the Atlantic. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

At the beginning of 1776, virtually no one in the colonies was advocating independence: Americans based their grievances against Parliament on their rights as British subjects. By the end of 1776, independence was on every patriot's lips. Author, Edward Larson gives us a compact, insightful history of that pivotal year. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

Little Round Top. Three words that resonate in American military history. It was there, at one of the most visited sites on the Gettysburg battlefield, that Confederates tried to turn the left flank of the Army of the Potomac. Little Round Top at Gettysburg: A Reassessment of July 2, 1863 is the first full-length in-depth treatment of this complex bloody affair in two decades. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

The National Road was a federal project that began decades before the nation itself was born and ranged through the 1830s. Starting out as a young Washington's dream of uniting the Potomac and Ohio Rivers, it connected the United States across the Alleghenies and into the western frontier. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

Ernest Virgil Focht was a Pennsylvania native and was captured in his first action in February 1943, remaining a prisoner of war until May 1945. During these 27 months he was held in five different POW camps, and was forced to march between camps in the depths of the 1944-45 winter. Lean about Ernie's experiences as a prisoner of war. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation's character-above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

The "Ten Crucial Days" winter campaign of 1776-77 is one of the most storied in the annals of military history. David Price examines this pivotal moment in the American War of Independence through an interpretive framework that focuses on five key factors: leadership, geography, weather, artillery, and contingency. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

The first examination of how James Madison and the Annapolis Convention defied all odds and expectations to begin the near-impossible process of restructuring the federal government and worked to bring the republic back from the brink of collapse. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

Hear the untold story of a forgotten American, John Hart, whose adventures helped pave the way for the United States' emergence as an international power. For nearly three years, Hart became the most visible of a disparate group of mariners between New York and Key West who tormented Spanish authorities, riled the US government, and became heroes to an oppressed people fighting to be free. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

With a colorful supporting cast second to none, Three Roads to Gettysburg tells the story of Robert E. Lee, George Gordon Meade, and Abraham Lincoln, the monumental Battle of Gettysburg, and the immortal address that has come to define America. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

In August 1862, Pennsylvania quickly responded to President Lincoln's request for more troops. These devoted groups of mostly central Pennsylvanians, were to become the soldiers of the 130th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Through their diaries, letters, memoirs, and personal accounts, the men tell their heroic story. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

Despite her success setting a self-supported Fastest Known Time record on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2013, Heather "Anish" Anderson still had such deep-seated insecurities that she became convinced her feat had been a fluke. So two years later she set out again, this time hiking through mud, rocks, and mountain blazes to crush her constant self-doubt and seek the true source of her strength and purpose. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

Before the 1950 World Series, the Philadelphia Phillies were infamous for a record-breaking lack of achievement that dated from their conception in 1883 through the 1940s. Nicknamed the "Whiz Kids" because they had so many players under thirty, the 1950 Phillies team caught lightning in a bottle for one season and became legendary in Philadelphia and beyond. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

Theatres of the Body is a critical examination of danced stage productions in antebellum Philadelphia. At the time, the city boasted the largest number of native-born ballet dancers in the young nation and also became a creative home to blackface star T. D. Rice, who helped popularize that performance genre. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com

Award-winning author Michael C. Harris's impressive Fighting for Philadelphia: Forts Mercer and Mifflin, the Battle of Whitemarsh, and the Road to Valley Forge, October 5-December 19, 1777 rescues these important actions from obscurity, puts them in context with the Saratoga Campaign, and closes his magnificent trilogy that began with the battle of Brandywine and left off with the slugfest at Germantown. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com