Rustin Day of Film 2025
Celebrate Juneteenth and Pride at the Chester County History Center with a selection of short films from the West Chester Film Festival representing Black and LGBTQ+ experiences to honor West Chester’s hometown hero, Bayard Rustin.
Records Round Up: Wills, Estate, & Probate Records
Join the staff of the Chester County Archives on Thursday, February 20th at 12 p.m. for a virtual program to learn more about the County’s Probate records both past and present – learn how to navigate the world of wills in your genealogical research!
Book Discussion – Silent Spring OR The Serviceberry OR Braiding Sweetgrass(hybrid)
Join the discussion! The bi-monthly CCHC book group selected three books. Silent Spring Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring altered the course of history. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 […]
Book Discussion – All That She Carried OR Wake (hybrid)
Join the discussion! The bi-monthly CCHC book group selected two books. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles “In 1850s South […]
Book Discussion – 1493: Uncovering the New World that Columbus Created (hybrid)
Join the discussion! The bi-monthly CCHC book group selected this best-seller by Charles Mann. This book presents research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians that suggests how the post-Columbian network […]
Book Discussion – Boom! The Voices of the Sixties (hybrid)
Join the discussion! The bi-monthly CCHC book group has selected this book by Tom Brokaw, who brings years of journalistic insight to this publication. “One minute it was Ike and […]
Library Internship
Hands-On Learning Experience
Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777-1778 (Hybrid)
Join local author Ned Donoghue II at the West Chester Friends Meeting House for a discussion about the twenty Quaker men who were banished from Pennsylvania in 1777 for refusing to take up arms to support the War of Independence. (You may also choose to attend virtually).
Book Discussion – American Creation (hybrid)
Join the discussion! The bi-monthly CCHC book group has selected this book by acclaimed historian Joseph J. Ellis, who brings his unparalleled talents to this riveting account of the early […]
Rustin Day of Film
The Chester County History Center and the West Chester Film Festival present films that elevate the African American and LGBTQ+ experiences to honor West Chester’s hometown hero, Bayard Rustin.