As a research associate at Christ Church Preservation Trust, Bright is one of the people who helps explain the site’s storied history to the 250,000 visitors who pass through its gates and those of the nearby burial ground each year.

The Washington Post followed South Carolina delegates to the Burial Ground for a discussion on politics, now and then.

John Hopkins, Christ Church Burial Ground manager, talked to us about the graves of the “Founding Mothers.”

See a familiar face around 2:17? Neil Ronk gives Brian Kilmeade a lesson in Christ Church history!

The thousands of tourists who wander through that two-acre green Christ Church Burial Ground in Old City often don’t realize that, in addition to holding the stories of five signers of the Declaration of Independence and 10 mayors of Philadelphia, it also holds the stories of many women whose lives were just as real — and consequential.