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Abolitionism

African American Migration

Alien and Sedition Acts

Almshouses (Poorhouses)

American Friends Service Committee

Animal Protection

Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens

Armstrong Association of Philadelphia

Black Power

Bloody Fifth Ward

Boarding and Lodging Houses

Byberry (Philadelphia State Hospital)

Children’s Aid Society of Pennsylvania

Christiana Riot Trial

City Merchant (The); or, The Mysterious Failure

Civil Defense

Civil War Sanitary Fairs

Co-Working Spaces

Columbia Avenue Riot

Country Clubs

Crime

Delaware Avenue (Columbus Boulevard)

Dispensaries

Dogfighting

Dogs

Duffy’s Cut

Education and Opportunity
In the twentieth century, many urban school districts, which had been among the finest in the nation, became some of the most challenged. The Greater Philadelphia region reflected this trend. In 1900 the region’s school systems consisted of largely uncoordinated public, parochial, and private schools. Between 1900 and 1965 politicians, educational administrators, and civic leaders ⇒ Read More
Educational Reform

Fort Wilson

Free African Society

Free Black Communities

Freemasonry

Friends Neighborhood Guild

Fugitives From Slavery

Garies (The) and Their Friends

Gayborhood

General Strike of 1910

Girard’s Bequest

Gothic Literature

Greater Philadelphia Movement

Greek War for Independence

Historical Societies

House of Refuge

Immigration (1790-1860)

Immigration (1930-Present)

Immigration and Migration (Colonial Era)

Indian Rights Associations

International Peace Mission Movement and Father Divine

Junto

Killers (The): A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia

Koreans and Korea

Kwanzaa

Ladies Association of Philadelphia

Law and Lawyers

Liberia; Or, Mr. Peyton’s Experiments

Liberians and Liberia

Liberty County

LOVE (Sculpture)

Loyalists

Lynching

Magdalen Society

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Mennonites

Mexicans and Mexico

Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago, and Teague O’Regan, his Servant

Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

Mount Airy (West)

MOVE

Mummers

Murder of Octavius Catto

Nationalities Service Center

Native American-Pennsylvania Relations 1681-1753

Native and Colonial Go-Betweens

Nativism

Nativist Riots of 1844

New Year’s Traditions

Nursing

Octavia Hill Association

ODUNDE Festival

Orphanages and Orphans

Papal Visits

Pennhurst State School and Hospital

Pennsylvania Emancipation Exposition (1913)

Pennsylvania Hall

Pennsylvania Prison Society

Philadelphia (Film)

Philadelphia Award

Philadelphia Plan

Philadelphia, the Place that Loves You Back

Playgrounds

Police Department (Philadelphia)

Poverty

Prisons and Jails

Public Baths and Bathing

Puerto Rican Migration

Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans

Quaker City

Quaker City (The); Or, the Monks of Monk Hall

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Reminder Days

Riots (1830s and 1840s)

Roman Catholic Parishes

Saint Patrick’s Day

Settlement Houses

Social Dancing

South Asians

SPHAS

Sports Fans

Trade Unions (1820s and 1830s)

Treaty Negotiations with Native Americans

Treaty of Shackamaxon

TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)

Twist (The)

Underground Railroad

Union League of Philadelphia

United States Colored Troops

Vagrancy

Veterans and Veterans’ Organizations

Vigilance Committees

Walking Purchase

Women’s Clubs

Working Men’s Party
