Contents » American Revolution
Abolitionism

African American Migration

Almshouses (Poorhouses)

American Philosophical Society

Anatomy and Anatomy Education

Anglican Church (Church of England)

Animal Protection

Arboretums

Arsenals

Articles of Confederation

Artisans

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (The)

Bakeries and Bakers

Bank of North America

Barbershops and Barbers

Bartram’s Garden

Book Publishing and Publishers

Brickmaking and Brickmakers

British Occupation of Philadelphia

Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Cartoons and Cartoonists

Cemeteries

Center City

Ceramics

Chemistry

China Trade

City Councils (Philadelphia)

Civil Defense

Classical Music

Clocks and Clockmakers

Coffeehouses

Common Sense

Constitutional Convention of 1787

Continental Congresses

Courthouses (County)

Crime

Crowds (Colonial and Revolution Eras)

Cumberland County, New Jersey

Dancing Assembly

Deafness and the Deaf

Declaration of Independence

Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Dentistry and Dentists

Dogfighting

Dogs

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Dutch (The) and The Netherlands

Educational Reform

Entomology (Study of Insects)

Fairmount Park Houses

Fashion

Fort Wilson

Forts and Fortifications

Fox Hunting

France and the French

Free African Society

Free Black Communities

Freemasonry

French Revolution
The French Revolution of 1789 created political, social, and financial instability throughout Europe, prompting many terrified French aristocrats, businessmen, and intellectuals to flee to the United States. Philadelphia, with its cosmopolitan atmosphere, accessible port, and thriving commerce, attracted many of the French émigrés. Most settled along the Delaware River in the Mulberry district of Philadelphia ⇒ Read More
Funerals and Burial Practices

Furnituremaking

German Reformed Church

Grand Federal Procession

Grand Juries

Great Wagon Road

Haitian Revolution

Heating (Home)

Herpetology (Study of Amphibians and Reptiles)

Hinterlands

Historic Germantown: New Knowledge
in a Very Old Neighborhood

Historic Preservation

Hog Island

Home Remedies

Horses

Horticulture

Independence Hall

Infectious Diseases and Epidemics

Insurance

Irish (The) and Ireland

Iron Production

Junto

Ladies Association of Philadelphia

Lafayette’s Tour

Law and Lawyers

Lehigh Valley

Liberty Bell

Library Company of Philadelphia

Literary Societies

Log Cabins

Lotteries

Loyalists

Machining and Machinists

Mansions

Market Street

Mayors (Philadelphia)

Medicine (Colonial Era)

Mennonites

Meschianza

Meteorology (Study of the Atmosphere)

Militia

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Mount Holly Township, New Jersey

Mummies

Musical Instrument Making

Native American-Pennsylvania Relations, 1754-89

Nativism

New Year’s Traditions

Norristown, Pennsylvania

Nursing

Opera and Opera Houses

Ornithology (Study of Birds)

Pacific World (Connections and Impact)

Painters and Painting

Paints and Varnishes

Paper and Papermaking

Peale Family of Painters

Peale’s Philadelphia Museum

Pennsylvania Prison Society

Philadelphia Campaign

Philadelphia Contributionship

Philadelphia Lawyer

Philadelphia Pepper Pot

Pietism

Pine Barrens

Pirates

Plantations

Poetry and Poets

Police Department (Philadelphia)

Polish Settlement and Poland

Poverty

Printing and Publishing

Prisons and Jails

Privateering

Proclamation Line of 1763

Public Health

Public Parks (Philadelphia)

Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Restaurants

Revolutionary Crisis (American Revolution)

Roman Catholic Parishes

Saint Patrick’s Day

Salem County, New Jersey

Salt Making

Saws and Saw Making

Scientific Societies

Scots Irish (Scotch Irish)

Shipbuilding and Shipyards

Shoemakers and Shoemaking

Slavery and the Slave Trade

Smith’s and Windmill Islands

Smoking and Smoking Regulations

Society Hill

Spanish-American Revolutions
As a port with longstanding commercial, cultural, and political connections with Spanish America, Philadelphia played a significant role in the era of Spanish-American revolutions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The City of Brotherly Love welcomed individuals escaping Spanish domination and helped to support their ideas about liberty, equality and independence. Philadelphia’s ⇒ Read More
Street Numbering

Street Vendors

Taverns

Textile Manufacturing and Textile Workers

Tobacco

Trails (Indian)

Treaty Negotiations with Native Americans

Trees

Trenton and Princeton Campaign (Washington’s Crossing)

Trenton, New Jersey

Tun Tavern

Vagrancy

Valley Forge

Veterans and Veterans’ Organizations

West Chester, Pennsylvania

Wieland; or, the Transformation: An American Tale

Wilmington, Delaware

Woodbury, New Jersey
