BerksHistory
The Historical Society of Berks County is an educational center that serves to engage and excite our community by interpreting its unique past to understand the present and inspire the future.
Eagle Eyes: The Times of Our Lives in News Photos Through Six Decades in Berks County
11-8-2025 2nd Saturday Program - A Tie That Binds: General Hartranft, the 1899 Exeter Train Wreck...
10-11-2025 Second Saturday Program - Germantown: A Military History of the Battle for Philadelphia
'After the Tumult': Events Occurring in the Wake of the 'Reading Riots' of 1877
9-13-25 Second Saturday Program - In the Most Imminent Danger of Being Destroyed..
Pälzer Krischer & Blohbariyer: German and PA Dutch Folk Music
6-14-25 Second Saturday Program - Rescue & Preservation of a P&R Railroad Photographic Collection
Keeping History Alive
BHC Revitalization Campaign Video ~ 2025 Edition
When Satchel Paige Came to Town
5-10-25 Second Saturday Program - 40th Anniversary of the Reading YMCA Fire
3-8-25 Second Saturday Program - Restoration of the Dreibelbis Covered Bridge
2-8-25 Second Saturday Program - Centuries of Historic Theorem Painting
12-14-24 Second Saturday Program - Mary Jane Painter Thompson, OSS Codebreaker: My Mother the Spy
10-12-24 Second Saturday Program - Berks Invades South Carolina
9-11-24 Special Lecture - Palatine Settlement in the Land of the Turtles
9-14-24 Second Saturday Program - Pontiac's Rebellion Comes to Berks County
Second Saturday Program- June 8, 2024
Second Sat. Program- European Villages of Origin for Many Immigrant Berks County Families- 5.11.24
Second Saturday Program- Rigg: From Farmer to Trolley Tycoon- 4.13.24
BHC Volunteer Thank You
Second Saturday Program- The Ladies of...Pennsylvania Dutch Literature and Illustration- 3.9.24
Berks County's Last Mountain Lion- March 2023
Second Saturday Program- Dr. Bodo Otto: Patriot Surgeon of PA- 1.13.24
Second Saturday Program- Revolutionary Refugees in Reading- 12.9.23
Second Saturday Program- Pennsylvania Railroad Goes to Iran- 10.14.23
Second Saturday Program- Honoring our WWII Forgotten Heroes- 11.11.23
The Story of Sidney and Esther Bratt, Holocaust Survivors- 10.18.23
Second Saturday Program- Frontier Forts of the Blue Mountains-09.09.23