Community Videos
2020
Bob Holliday looks at the Brandywine River and how it has it has shaped, and
been shaped, by the people and business along its banks.
2019
Dr. Anne E. Krulikowski from West Chester University presents "Utopia for
Workers: Housing and Planned Industrial Communities."
Ellen Endslow, Director of Collections at the Chester County Historical Society,
presents a program about quilts made in Chester County.
2018
Features James Stuber, author of "What if Things were Made in America Again:
How Consumers Can Rebuild the Middle Class by Buying Things Made in American Communities."
2017
J.P. & Kristian, Coatesville Youth Initiative 2017 summer interns at NISHM, look
at the residents of Coatesville PA using photographs from the NISHM collections.
Kristian & J.P., Coatesville Youth Initiative 2017 summer interns at NISHM, look
at Coatesville PA businesses using photographs from the NISHM collections.
2016
Local historian and world traveler Eugene DiOrio will be showing photographs from
his trips to Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia, home to part of the
Huston Family.
Like many people World War I historian Bob Ford is a collector. But Bob isn’t
just a collector of things from World War I. He is also a collector of the stories
of the people of The War to End All Wars.
2015
Christopher Densmore, Curator at the Friends Quaker Library at
Swarthmore College presents “The Underground Railroad in Chester County.”
NISHM welcomes Mr. Densmore in celebration of Black History Month!
2014
Ranger Tom Simek and Friends of Hibernia's John Ross look at the history
of the park through photographs.
Join Gene DiOrio and his trusty slide projector as he continues to take us along on
his 1968 trip to Great Britain. Along the way we will visit great estates, quaint
villages, impressive cathedrals and other important familiar, and not so familiar,
landmarks.
2013
2012
A historical overview of the people and events
that made the Delaware River the most important commercial waterway of the 18th and
19th centuries.
Chester County historian Eugene DiOrio talks on
the connection with Lukens Steel and the creation of the Chester Valley Bank.
Dr tonya thames taylor from West Chester University will present the 2012 Black History Month lecture 'Fighting for Freedom: Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, and the US Colored Troops'.
2011
Gene DiOrio and his slide projector take us around the world by
boat and train.
The Coatesville Historic Commission's
remembrance of the 100th anniversary of the murder of Edgar Rice and the lynching
of Zachariah Walker.
2010
Susannah Brody talks about her new book, Remembering Chester County, From Valley Forge
to Coatesville.
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