PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A new program called the Mini Nurse Academy launched this year at General George Meade School in North Philadelphia. It's the first school on the east coast to have this ...

WILKES-BARRE — On the eve of the one of the most critical events in the nation’s history, General George Gordon Meade was ordered to assume command of the Army and move against the Confederates, who ...

Gen. George Meade grave site at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. This is a daily series telling the story of the tombstones of people who are historically important and interesting as they relate ...

George Meade George Gordon Meade (Dec. 31, 1815-Nov. 6, 1872) was a U.S. Army officer and civil engineer best known for decisively defeating Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of ...

How a brilliant Union plan at the Siege of Petersburg turned into a disaster — and why black troops bore the worst of it. By Richard Slotkin In a Virginia field, some 7,000 Union soldiers were killed ...

Surgical nurse Jamel Mann helps Jada Whipple during a Mini Nursing Academy held at Gen. George G. Meade School by the National Black Nurses Association. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Angel McCullough spends most of ...

If Union Gen. George Gordon Meade had had his way, the battle that changed the course of the Civil War would have taken place on Maryland soil. A fight in a Pennsylvania crossroads town called ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Police are searching for the suspect wanted in a robbery at an elementary school in North Philadelphia. Police say a man entered the General George Meade School on the 1600 block ...

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