Women are organizing to fund raise for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, a moment when our city and our nation will be at the

Philadelphia, 1867. A 21-year-old Black woman was recently appointed principal of a new public school on a small alley in the Seventh Ward. This woman

In this city, there are very different educational opportunities for the wealthy and the poor. But reformers and activists are trying to find ways to

A city at war with a not-so-distant enemy, hospitals overwhelmed and spilling over into temporary tents, nurses asking citizens to donate critical supplies, its Philadelphia

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Early colonial Philadelphia was a place of contention. Colonists had strong opinions about what this Quaker experiment should look like, and they didn’t always agree.

The inaugural episode looks into the history of an important Philadelphia declaration, the radical thinkers who signed it, and how it all happened here in the Quaker City of Brotherly Love.