Educational

Dr. Peter Lillback: This is Providence Today and we’re in the city of Philadelphia, the birthplace of the United States. There’s so many great stories that are here to tell about how our founding fathers gave us the nation we enjoy every day, as well as the great documents that shape how we govern ourselves […]

Peter Lillback: The state capital of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, is along the mighty Susquehanna River. And in the midst of this capital city, is one of the most magnificent state houses in America. It was dedicated by President Teddy Roosevelt. When he came, he saw it as an extraordinary building, representing the power and growth of […]

Dr. Peter Lillback: We’re standing outside a wonderful building called the Second National Bank, which has now become a great museum of early American paintings, and we want you to take a look at that as part of the work of Providence Today. We’re here in this place in Philadelphia and we remember that history […]

Speaker 1: Welcome to Providence Today. We’re so glad that you’re here. We’re standing inside the American Revolution Museum and right next to this great representation of the Liberty Tree that was in the Boston Common in 1765, an old tree that was identified by the Sons of Liberty as a place of meeting, as […]

Dr. Peter Lillback: Here at the National Constitution Center in the big open vestibule that welcomes you, there’s this marvelous display of flags that take you all the way around from a panorama of the Philadelphia skyline to Independence Hall on the far side. And what we have here are the flags that take us […]