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Abolitionism

Alien and Sedition Acts

Almshouses (Poorhouses)

American Philosophical Society

Anatomy and Anatomy Education

Arsenals

Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

Artisans

Athens of America

Ballet

Bank of North America

Bank of the United States (First)

Banking

Barbershops and Barbers

Bartram’s Garden

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia

Board of Health (Philadelphia)

Boarding and Lodging Houses

Book Publishing and Publishers

Botany

Brickmaking and Brickmakers

Capital of the United States (Selection of Philadelphia)

Cartoons and Cartoonists

Cemeteries

Center City

China Trade

Civil Defense

Classical Music

Coffeehouses

College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Cordwainers Trial of 1806

Courthouses (County)

Crime

Dancing Assembly

Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Democratic-Republican Societies

Dentistry and Dentists

Dispensaries

Dogs

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Dutch (The) and The Netherlands

Educational Reform

Entomology (Study of Insects)

Fairmount Park Houses

Fashion

Fever 1793 (Novel)

Forts and Fortifications

France and the French

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
Fries Rebellion

Fugitives From Slavery

Furnituremaking

Grand Federal Procession

Grand Juries

Hail, Columbia

Haitian Revolution

Herpetology (Study of Amphibians and Reptiles)

Hinterlands

Historic Preservation

Historical Societies

Home Remedies

Immigration (1790-1860)

Infectious Diseases and Epidemics

Insurance

Irish (The) and Ireland

Iron Production

Law and Lawyers

Lazaretto

Library Company of Philadelphia

Literary Societies

Lotteries

Mansions

Maps and Mapmaking

Market Street

Militia

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Mother Bethel AME Church:
Congregation and Community

Mount Holly Township, New Jersey

Mummies

Nativism

New Year’s Traditions

Norristown, Pennsylvania

North Philadelphia

Nursing

Opera and Opera Houses

Pacific World (Connections and Impact)

Painters and Painting

Paper and Papermaking

Peale Family of Painters

Peale’s Philadelphia Museum

Pennsylvania Prison Society

Philadelphia (Warship)

Philadelphia and Its People in Maps:
The 1790s

Philadelphia Contributionship

Philadelphia Lawyer

Pirates

Plays of Susanna Rowson

Poetry and Poets

Police Department (Philadelphia)

Polish Settlement and Poland

Political Parties (Origins, 1790s)

Poverty

Presidents of the United States (Presence in Region)

Printing and Publishing

Prisons and Jails

Private (Independent) Schools

Privateering

Public Health

Public Parks (Philadelphia)

Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans

Quasi-War

Red City (The)

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Restaurants

Roman Catholic Parishes

Saint Patrick’s Day

Scientific Societies

Shoemakers and Shoemaking

Slavery and the Slave Trade

Smith’s and Windmill Islands

Smoking and Smoking Regulations

Social Dancing

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
Staircase Group (The)

Street Vendors

Tobacco

Treaty Negotiations with Native Americans

Trees

Turnpikes

U.S. Congress (1790-1800)

U.S. Presidency (1790-1800)

United States Mint (Philadelphia)

Vagrancy

Veterans and Veterans’ Organizations

West Chester, Pennsylvania

Whiskey Rebellion Trials

Wieland; or, the Transformation: An American Tale

Wilmington, Delaware

Yellow Fever
For more than a century beginning in the late seventeenth century, sudden outbreaks of yellow fever sowed death and panic throughout Philadelphia and its environs. With medical science seemingly powerless against it, yellow fever was a terrifying and mysterious threat that rivaled any disease of the era in its capacity to take lives and disrupt ⇒ Read More