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1776

Abolitionism

Abscam

Admiral Wilson Boulevard

Aeronautics and Aerospace Industry

African American Migration

AIDS and AIDS Activism

Airports

Alien and Sedition Acts

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 Philosophical Society

Anglican Church (Church of England)

Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens

Armstrong Association of Philadelphia

Arsenals

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

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (The)

Automats

Automobile Racing

Automobiles

Automotive Manufacturing

Bakeries and Bakers

Bank of the United States (First)

Bank War

Banking

Baseball (Professional)

Baseball: Negro Leagues

Basketball (Professional)

Bicentennial (1976)

Black Power

Board of Health (Philadelphia)

Book Publishing and Publishers

Bookselling

Bootlegging

Botany

Boxing and Boxers

British Occupation of Philadelphia

Brownfields Redevelopment

Burlesque

Buses

Byberry (Philadelphia State Hospital)

Canals

Capital of the United States (Selection of Philadelphia)

Carpet Weaving and Rug Making

Cartoons and Cartoonists

Casinos

Cast Iron Architecture

Centennial Exhibition (1876)

Center City

Chemical Industry

Children’s Aid Society of Pennsylvania

Christiana Riot Trial

City Beautiful Movement

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

Coal

Coffeehouses

Cold War

College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Colonial Revival

Colonization Movement (Africa)

Columbia Avenue Riot

Columbus Day

Commercial Museum

Common Sense

Community Development

Community Development Corporations (CDCs)

Constitution Commemorations

Constitutional Convention of 1787

Continental Congresses

Convention Centers

Convents

Cordwainers Trial of 1806

Country Clubs

Cricket

Crime

Crowds (Colonial and Revolution Eras)

Cycling (Sport)

Dancing Assembly

Declaration of Independence

Deindustrialization

Democratic-Republican Societies

Department Stores

Dewey’s Lunch Counter Sit-In

Diners

Dinosaurs and Paleontology (Study of Fossils and Prehistoric Life)

Doo Wop

Dream Garden

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
Elegy (for MOVE and Philadelphia)

ENIAC

Enterprise Zones and Empowerment Zones

Entomology (Study of Insects)

Environmental Movement

Eugenics

Fair Housing

Fashion

Films (Feature)

Football (Professional)

Fort Wilson

Forts and Fortifications

Free Black Communities

Freedom Train

Freemasonry

Fries Rebellion

Fugitives From Slavery

Furnituremaking

Gallery at Market East

Garies (The) and Their Friends

Garment Work and Workers

Gas Stations

Gayborhood

Genealogy

General Trades Union Strike (1835)

Gentrification

Girard College

Godey’s Lady’s Book

Gospel Music (African American)

Great Depression

Great Wagon Road

Greek War for Independence

Grocery Stores and Supermarkets

Gunpowder Industry

Hail, Columbia

Haitian Revolution

Helicopters

Herpetology (Study of Amphibians and Reptiles)

Historic Districts

Historic Preservation

Historical Societies

Hog Island

Home Remedies

Horticulture

Hotels and Motels

House of Refuge

Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

I-95

I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia

Ice Hockey (Professional)

Immigration (1790-1860)

Immigration (1870-1930)

Immigration (1930-Present)

Immigration and Migration (Colonial Era)

Independence Hall

Independence National Historical Park

Independence Seaport Museum

Indian Rights Associations

Industrial Workers of the World

Infectious Diseases and Epidemics

Inner Suburbs

Insurance

International Peace Mission Movement and Father Divine

Irish (The) and Ireland

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Jawn

Jazz

Knights of Labor

Korean War

Kwanzaa

Labor Day

Ladies Association of Philadelphia

Lafayette’s Tour

Lazaretto

Legionnaires’ Disease

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Liberty Bell

Library Company of Philadelphia

Listen to the Mocking Bird

Literary Societies

Locomotive Manufacturing

Log Cabins

Lotteries

Loyalists

Lynching

Machining and Machinists

Magazines, Literary

Main Line of Public Works

Manufacturing Suburbs

Maps and Mapmaking

March of the Mill Children

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Mason-Dixon Line

Mayors (Philadelphia)

Medical Publishing

Mennonites

Meteorology (Study of the Atmosphere)
