Timothy Kent Holliday is a lecturer in the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his PhD in History in 2020. He is a historian of early America, focusing on the history of the body.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Philadelphia became one of the central nodes of American burlesque, a genre with origins in the ribald Victorian “travesties”—theatrical parodies of well-known operas that relied upon risqué and absurd humor. Distinct from its English counterpart, American burlesque incorporated elements of minstrelsy and, especially by the end of ...
Two major coronavirus epidemics in the early twenty-first century left their mark on the Greater Philadelphia region. The second of these epidemics, beginning in 2019, caused considerable loss of life; prompted major restrictions on education, social life, and the area’s economy; and exposed urban inequalities. Vaccine research undertaken in Philadelphia, however, played a critical role in ...
Connecting the Past with the Present, Building Community, Creating a Legacy