Bicentennial (1976)
The big celebrations of the Bicentennial drew crowds of Americans, but the summer of ’76 also produced conflict and ultimately failed to fulfill the dreams of the city and its ...
Scott Gabriel Knowles
Scott Gabriel Knowles is associate professor of history at Drexel University. He is the author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America (2011) and Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City (2009).