Dr. Lillback: Welcome to Providence Today. We’re in historic Philadelphia again, and we’re at a place as you can see, if you look over here, it’s called Welcome Park. Welcome Park is a place where we commemorate William Penn. There’s his beautiful statue, that is a mini version, essentially, of what you see on the […]

Dr. Peter A. Lillback: Providence Today has you at Welcome Park in historic Philadelphia, the place where William Penn lived for a couple years in a slate roof house while he was here in his city, Philadelphia. We want to give you a quick overview of William Penn’s life and how it was used in […]

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 […]

What is the Liberty Tree? Do you know its legacy within American history? Dr. Lillback teaches us the importance of the Liberty Tree and what its historic symbol represents.      

Speaker 1: This is Providence Today, and we’re standing here at Christ Church in Philadelphia. One of the great places of our Founding Fathers, where they worshiped as members and also as representatives of the American people and they came to the Continental Congress. This particular marker is very impressive to me because it reminds […]

Dr. Peter A. Lillback: This is Providence Today. We’re here in Philadelphia, and we’re standing by the historic Christ Church. Christ Church is a historic Anglican Church, and it’s the birthplace of the modern Episcopal Church. It was hard to be a church of England after the American revolution, as you can well understand. And […]

Speaker 1: 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 document, that shape how we govern ourselves and […]

Speaker 1: 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 and […]

Speaker 1: You are here in Philadelphia. And this spot that you’re now viewing is where Robert Morris had a magnificent home that he gave to General Washington, who had now had become President Washington, as the government moves from New York, where Washington was inaugurated to Philadelphia, where the government would operate for the […]