Charlene Mires is the author of Independence Hall in American Memory (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) and Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations (NYU Press, 2013). She is Professor of History at Rutgers-Camden and Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.
Essays by Charlene Mires:
- Main Line of Public Works
- Great Wagon Road
- Turnpikes
- I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Cream Cheese
- Railroad Suburbs
- Historic Preservation
- Center City
- LOVE (Sculpture)
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Lafayette’s Tour
- Tourism
- Columbus Day
- Industrial Neighborhoods
- Pennsylvania Emancipation Exposition (1913)
- National Freedom Day
- Independence National Historical Park
- Independence Hall