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1776

Abolitionism

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Admiral Wilson Boulevard

Aeronautics and Aerospace Industry

African American Migration

AIDS and AIDS Activism

Airports

Alien and Sedition Acts

Almshouses (Poorhouses)

American Bandstand

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
The American Civil Liberties Union, a national legal organization dedicated to the defense and preservation of civil liberties in the United States, has been organized in the Philadelphia region since 1951, when chapters formed in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as part of a move toward establishing branches throughout the nation. Both chapters played a role ⇒ Read More
American Friends Service Committee

American Philosophical Society

Anatomy and Anatomy Education

Anglican Church (Church of England)

Animal Protection

Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens

Arboretums

Armories

Armstrong Association of Philadelphia

Arsenals

Art Colonies

Art Deco

Art of Cecilia Beaux

Art of Dox Thrash

Art of Thomas Eakins

Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

Articles of Confederation

Artisans

Arts of Wharton Esherick

Astronomy

Athenæum of Philadelphia

Atlantic City

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (The)

Automats

Automobile Racing

Automobiles

Automotive Manufacturing

Avenue of the Arts

Ballet

Bank of North America

Bank of the United States (First)

Bank War

Banking

Barnes Foundation

Bartram’s Garden

Baseball (Professional)

Baseball: Negro Leagues

Basketball (Professional)

Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Better Philadelphia Exhibition (1947)

Bicentennial (1976)

Bicycles

Big 5

Billiards (Pool)

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia

Black Power

Bloody Fifth Ward

Blue Route

Board of Health (Philadelphia)

Boarding and Lodging Houses

Boathouse Row

Book Publishing and Publishers

Bookselling

Bootlegging

Botany

Boxing and Boxers

Brickmaking and Brickmakers

Bridgeton, New Jersey

British Occupation of Philadelphia

Broad Street

Broad Street Bullies

Brownfields Redevelopment

Bucks County Map
Bucks County, one of three counties established in 1682 by William Penn (1644-1718), originally stretched northward along the Delaware River all the way to the Delaware Water Gap and westward past Allentown. Even after shrinking dramatically when Northampton and Lehigh Counties were carved from its territory in 1752, the county still encompassed multiple regions that ⇒ Read More
Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Burlesque

Byberry (Philadelphia State Hospital)

Camden County, New Jersey

Camden, New Jersey

Campbell Soup Company

Canals

Capital of the United States (Selection of Philadelphia)

Carpet Weaving and Rug Making

Cartoons and Cartoonists

Cast Iron Architecture

Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul

Cemeteries

Centennial Exhibition (1876)

Center City

Center City Map
Forming the core of civic, commercial, and residential life since Philadelphia’s seventeenth-century founding, Center City has been a continually evolving experiment in urban living and management. Consisting of the roughly rectangular area bounded by Vine Street at the north, South Street to the south, the Schuylkill at the west and the Delaware River at the ⇒ Read More
Ceramics

Charter Schools

Cheesesteaks

Chemical Industry

Chemistry

Chester County Map
As one of the original counties established by William Penn (1644-1718), Chester County was only modestly influenced by Philadelphia in its early development because after 1789 it shared no border with the city. Although the Pennsylvania Railroad linked the county’s central valley to Philadelphia in the mid-nineteenth century, it remained a largely rural landscape whose ⇒ Read More
Chester County, Pennsylvania

Chester, Pennsylvania

Children’s Aid Society of Pennsylvania

Children’s Television

Children’s Theater
In Philadelphia, the theater capital of the United States until New York overtook it in the 1830s, an array of children’s theater activity has long sparked creativity and imagination, informed, and educated young people with live performances. Early staged productions for the entire family increasingly gave way to child-specific theater combining education with entertainment. In the twentieth century, the children’s theater company grew to include commercial and non–commercial professional productions, non–professional ⇒ Read More
China Trade

Chinatown

Cholera

Christiana Riot Trial

City Beautiful Movement

City Councils (Philadelphia)

City Hall (Philadelphia)

City Merchant (The); or, The Mysterious Failure

Civil Defense

Civil Rights (African American)

Civil Rights (LGBT)

Civil War Museum of Philadelphia

Civil War Sanitary Fairs

Classical Music

Clocks and Clockmakers

Co-Working Spaces

Coal

Coffeehouses

Cold War

College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Colonization Movement (Africa)

Columbia Avenue Riot

Columbus Day

Commercial Museum

Common Sense

Community Colleges

Community Development

Community Development Corporations (CDCs)

Commuter Trains

Consolidation Act of 1854

Constitution Commemorations

Constitutional Convention of 1787

Continental Congresses

Contractor Bosses (1880s to 1930s)

Convention Centers

Convents

Cordwainers Trial of 1806

Country Clubs

Courthouses (County)

Cricket

Crime

Crosstown Expressway

Crowds (Colonial and Revolution Eras)

Cumberland County, New Jersey

Cycling (Sport)

Dancing Assembly

Deafness and the Deaf

Declaration of Independence

Deindustrialization

Delaware Avenue (Columbus Boulevard)

Delaware Bay

Delaware County Map
Carved out of Chester County in 1789 (with the remainder of that county lying to its southwest), Delaware County long served as a distinct but close neighbor to the City of Philadelphia. Linked to the Philadelphia port from the eighteenth century onward, the eastern part of the county, including Chester and its neighboring municipalities along ⇒ Read More
Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Delaware River Basin Commission

Delaware River Port Authority

Democratic-Republican Societies

Dentistry and Dentists

Department Stores

Design of Cities

Dewey’s Lunch Counter Sit-In

Diners

Dinosaurs and Paleontology (Study of Fossils and Prehistoric Life)

Dispensaries

Doo Wop

Down There

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Dream Garden

Duffy’s Cut

Dutch (The) and The Netherlands

Eastern State Penitentiary

Edge Cities

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

Elegy (for MOVE and Philadelphia)

Elfreth’s Alley

ENIAC

Enterprise Zones and Empowerment Zones

Entomology (Study of Insects)

Environmental Movement

Eugenics

Fabric Row

Fair Housing

Fairmount Park

Fairmount Park Commission

Fairmount Park Houses

Fairmount Water Works

Ferries

Fever 1793 (Novel)

Films (Feature)

Fire Escapes

First Purchasers of Pennsylvania

Flour Milling

Food Processing

Football (Professional)

Fort Wilson

Forts and Fortifications

Fox Hunting
