History of Philadelphia

Villanova University Fall 2003

Elective Assignments

For Fall 2003:  This list is now completed through the end of the semester.

Books on reserve: These books have been placed on reserve in the library because many students may wish to read chapters in them as elective assignments. These books are:

William C. Cutler III and Howard Gillette Jr., eds., The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800-1975.

Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller, eds., The Peoples of Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940.

Gary Nash, First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory

Charlene Mires, Independence Hall in American Memory

Sam Bass Warner, The Private City.

Also for electives: For at least one week, you will read newspapers from the time we are studying. If the newspaper is published at least five days a week, read one week. If it is published less frequently, read one month. Falvey Library has the following Philadelphia newspapers (on microfilm unless specified otherwise):

• Pennsylvania Gazette (December 24, 1728-October 11, 1815; most of 18th century available as database).
• Pennsylvania Evening Post (January 24, 1775-March 22, 1777).
• Pennsylvania Mercury (August 20, 1784-March 1792 with gaps).
• Pennsylvania Herald (January 25, 1785-February 14, 1788).
• Pennsylvania Freeman (January 1846-June 1854 with gaps)
• Philadelphia Public Ledger (March 25, 1836-April 15, 1934)
• Philadelphia Inquirer (January 1, 1920 to the present, with most recent years on CD-ROM).
• Philadelphia Tribune (January 6, 1912-December 1970).

PMHB = Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

PH = Pennsylvania History

Founding Philadelphia (Weigley Ch. 1, 1681-1701)

Articles / Book chapters

• Bradley Chapin, "Written Rights: Puritan and Quaker Procedural Guarantees," PMHB, July 1990.
• J. William Frost, "William Penn's Experiment in the Wilderness: Promise and Legend," PMHB, October 1983.
• J. William Frost, "Pennsylvania Institutes Religious Liberty, 1682-1860," PMHB, July 1988.
• Paul Douglas Newman, "'Good Will to all men ... from the King on the throne to the beggar on the dung hill': William Penn, the Roman Catholics, and Religious Toleration," PH, October 1994.
• Sally Schwartz, "William Penn and Toleration: Foundations of Colonial Pennsylvania," PH, October 1983.
• Any chapter in Richard S. Dunn and Mary Maples Dunn, The World of William Penn.
• Chapter 1, "Pieces of the Colonial Past" in Gary Nash, First City (on reserve).
• One chapter in any biography of William Penn.
• One chapter in any book or any article that you locate about Quakerism.
• One chapter in any book or any article that you locate about the Lenni Lenape Indians.

Other

• The Papers of William Penn (select any 25 pages not previously assigned)

Exhibits and historic sites

• Take a walk around Center City Philadelphia and see what survives from Penn's original plan for the city. (A good place to start would be Welcome Park, Second Street near Walnut, which is a plaza designed in the shape of Penn's plan.)
• Visit Pennsbury Manor (reconstruction of Penn's winter estate; 400 Pennsbury Memorial Rd., off Bordentown Rd., Falls Township, Bucks County; 215-946-0400; admission $5).  Information at www.pennsburymanor.org .
• Visit the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia (7th St. north of Market, Center City; closed Tuesdays; admission $5). Information at www.philadelphiahistory.org. Concentrate on the portion of the first floor exhibit devoted to William Penn and Quakers in the founding of Philadelphia.

The Colonial City (Weigley Ch. 2-3, 1701-1765)

Articles

• Gary E. Baker, "He That Would Thrive Must Ask His Wife: Franklin's Anthony Afterwit Letter," PMHB, January 1985.
• Ronald A. Bosco, " ' He That Best Understands the World, Least Likes It,': The Dark Side of Benjamin Franklin," PMHB, October 1987.
• George Boudreau, "'Done By a Tradesman': Franklin's Educational Proposals and the Culture of Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania," PH, Autumn 2002.
• George Boudreau, "'Highly Valuable and Extensively Useful': Community and Readership Among the Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia Middling Sort," PH, Summer 1996.
• Lynn Matluck Brooks, "Emblem of Gaiety, Love, and Legislation: Dance in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia," PMHB, January 1991.
• Patricia Cleary, " 'She Will Be in the Shop': Women's Sphere of Trade in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia and New York," PMHB, July 1995.
• I. Bernard Cohen, "Franklin's Scientific Enemies," PH, Winter 1998.
• Elaine F. Crane, "The World of Elizabeth Drinker," PMHB, January 1983.
• Elizabeth E. Dunn, "From a Bodl Youth to a Reflective Sage: A Reevaluation of Benjamin Franklin's Religion," PMHB, October 1987.
• John B. Frantz, "Franklin and the Pennsylvania Germans," PH, Winter 1998.
• Ralph Frasca, "From Apprenticeship to Journeyman to Partner: Benjamin Franklin's Workers and the Growth of the Early American Printing Trade," PMHB, April 1990.
• Ralph Frasca, "'To Rescue the Germans Out of Sauer's Hands': Benjamin Franklin's German-Language Printing Partnerships," PMHB, October 1997.
• J. William Frost, "Pennsylvania Institutes Religious Liberty, 1682-1860," PMHB, July 1988.
• Barbara A. Gannon, "The Lord is a Man of War, the God of Love and Peace: The Association Debate, 1747-1748," PH Winter 1998.
• Farley Grubb, "The Market Structure of Shipping German Immigrants to Colonial America," PMHB, January 1987.
• Marc L. Harris, "What Politeness Demanded: Ethnic Omissions in Franklin's Autobiography," PH, July 1994.
• David M. Larson, "Benjamin Franklin's Youth, His Biographers, and the Autobiography," PMHB, July 1995.
• J.A. Leo Lemay, "The American Aesthetic of Franklin's Visual Creations," PMHB, October 1987.
• James L. Machor, "The Urban Idyll of the New Republic: Moral Geography and the Mythic Hero of Franklin's Autobiography," April 1986.
• Alison Olson, "The Lobbying of London Quakers for Pennsylvania Friends," PMHB, July 1993.
• Alison Olson, "The Pamphlet War Over the Paxton Boys," PMHB, January/April 1999.
• Alison Gilbert Olson, "Pennsylvania Satire Before the Stamp Act, PH, Autumn 2001.
• Sharon V. Salinger, "'Send No More Women: Female Servants in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia," PMHB, January 1983.
• Boyd Stanley Schlenther, " 'The English is Swallowing Up Their Language': Welsh Ethnic Ambivalence in Colonial Pennsylvania and the Experience of David Evans," PMHB, April 1990.
• William J. Schenck, "Telling a Wonder: Dialectic in the Writings of John Bartram, PMHB, April 1983.
• Davis S. Shields, "The Wits and Poets of Pennsylvania: New Light on the Rise of Belles Lettres in Provincial Pennsylvania, 1720-1740," PMHB, April 1985.
• Sheila L. Skemp, "William Franklin: His Father's Son," PMHB, April 1985.
• Shila L. Skemp, "Benjamin Franklin, Patriot, and William Franklin, Loyalist, PH, Winter 1998.
• Jeffery A. Smith, "The Enlightenment Education of Benjamin Franklin Bache," PMHB, October 1988.
• Peter Thompson, "'The Friendly Glass': Drink and Gentility in Colonial Philadelphia," PMHB, October 1989.
• Matthew C. Ward, "An Army of Servants: The Pennsylvania Regiment During the Seven Years' War," PMHB, January/April 1995.
• Darold W. Wax, "Africans on the Delaware: The Pennsylvania Slave Trade, 1759-1765," PH, January 1983.
• George J. Willauer Jr., "Editorial Practices in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia: The Journal of Thomas Chalkley in Manuscript and Print," PMHB, April 1983.
• Esmond Wright, " 'The Fine and Noble China Vase, the British Empire': Benjamin Franklin's 'Love-Hate' View of England," PMHB, October 1987.
• Karin Wulf, "Assessing Gender: Taxation and the Evaluation of Economic Viability in Late Colonial Philadelphia," PMHB, July 1997.

Newspapers

• The Pennsylvania Gazette, database via Falvey Library.

Other

• Elaine Forman Crane, ed., The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker (read any 25 pages)
• Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography. (read any 25 pages)
• The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (choose any 25 pages of documents) 

Exhibits, historic sites, tours

• Elfreth's Alley, Second Street between Arch and Race (215-574-0560).
• Christ Church, Second and Market Streets.
• Betsy Ross House, Arch Street between Second and Third.
• Franklin Court, Market Street between Third and Fourth.
• "Old City Sacred Sites" tour from August 30.

Note: The "Walk Philadelphia" Tours listed for this weekend may be used for future electives.

Capital of the American Revolution (Weigley Ch. 4, 1765-1783 - extended to 1787 for electives)

Articles / Book chapters

• John Alexander, "Poverty, Fear, and Continuity: An analysis of the Poor in Late Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia," in Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller, eds., The Peoples of Philadelphia (on reserve).
• Dennis Barone, "Before the Revolution: Formal Rhetoric in Philadelphia During the Federal Era," PH, October 1987.
• Dennis Barone, "Hostility and Rapprochement: Formal Rhetoric in Philadelphia Before 1775," PH January 1989.
• Ric N. Caric, "To the Convivial Grave and Back: John Fitch as a Case Study in Cultural Failure," PMHB October 2002.
• Wayne Bodle, "Jane Bartram's 'Application': Her Struggle for Survival, Stability, and Self-Determination in Revolutionary Pennsylvania," PMHB, April 1991.
• Sarah Blank Dine, "Diaries and Doctors: Elizabeth Drinker and Philadelphia Medical Practice, 1760-1810," PH, Autumn 2001.
• Paul Finkelman, "The Pennsylvania Delegation and the Peculiar Institution: The Two Faces of the Keystone State," PMHB, January 1988.
• Joseph S. Foster, "The Politics of Ideology: The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1789-90," PH, April 1992.
• J. William Frost, "Pennsylvania Institutes Religious Liberty, 1682-1860," PMHB, July 1988.
• Mary A.Y. Gallagher, "Reinterpreting the 'Very Trifling Mutiny' at Philadelphia in June 1783," PMHB, January/April 1995.
• Farley Grubb, "British Immigration to Philadelphia: The Reconstruction of Ship Passenger Lists from May 1772 to October 1773," PH, July 1988.
• Alison Duncan Hirsch, "Uncovering 'the Hidden History of Mestizo America' in Elizabeth Drinker's Diary: Iterracial Reliationships in Late-Eighteenth Century Philadelphia," PH, Autumn 2001.
• Kurt Daniel Kortenhof, "Republican Ideology and Wartime Reality: Thomas Mifflin's Struggle as the First Quartermaster General of the Continental Army, 1775-1778," PMHB, July 1998.
• David W. Maxey, "Samuel Hopkins, Holder of the First U.S. Patent: A Study in Failure," PHMB, January / April 1998.
• "Peter C. Messer, "'A Species of Treason & Not the Least Dangerous Kind': The Treason Trials of Abraham Carlisle and John Roberts," PMHB, October 1999.
• Michael Meranze, "The Penitential Ideal in Late Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia," PMHB, October 1984.
• Charlene Mires, Chapter 1, "Landmark," in Independence Hall in American Memory (on reserve).
• Gary Nash, Chapter 3, "The Revolution's Many Faces," in First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (on reserve).
• Benjamin H. Newcomb, "Washington's Generals and the Decision to Quarter at Valley Forge," PMHB, October 1993.
• Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., and March M. Schweitzer, "Pennsylvania's Contributions to the Writing and the Ratification of the Constitution," PMHB, January 1988.
• Debra M. O'Neal, "Elizabeth Drinker and Her 'Lone' Women: Domestic Service, Debilities, and (In) Dependence through the Eyes of a Philadelphia Gentlewoman," PH, Autumn 2001.
• Nina Reid, "Enlightenment and Piety in the Science of John Bartram," PH, April 1991.
• G.S. Rowe, "Judicial Tyrant and Vox Populi: Pennsylvanians View Their State Supreme Court, 1777-1799," PMHB, January/April 1994.
• Rosalind Remer, "A Scottish Printer in Late-Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia: Robert Simpson's Journey from Apprentice to Entrepreneur," PMHB, January/April 1997.
• Carole Shamma, "The Female Social Structure of Philadelphia in 1775," PMHB, January 1983.
• Sheila L. Skemp, "William Franklin: His Father's Son," PMHB, April 1985. 
• Jean R. Solderlund, "Women in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania: Toward a Model of Diversity," PMHB, April 1991.
• Kevin T. Springman, "Thomas Paine's Response to Lord North's Speech on the British Peace Proposals," PMHB October 1997.
• Judith Van Buskirk, "They Didn't Join the Band: Disaffected Women in Revolutionary Philadelphia," PH, Summer 1995.
• Michael Vinson, "The Society for Political Inquiries: The Limits of Republican Discourse in Philadelphia on the Eve of the Constitutional Convention," PMHB, April 1989.
• Kerry S. Walters, "The 'Peaceable Disposition' of Animals: William Bartram on the Moral Sensibility of Brute Creation," PH, July 1989.
• Robert F. Williams, "The Influences of Pennsylvania's 1776 Constitution on American Constitutionalism During the Founding Decade," PMHB, January 1988.
• Sam Bass Warner, The Private City, Chapters 1 and 2 (book on reserve).
• Robert E. Wright, "Thomas Willing (1731-1821), Philadelphia Financier and Forgotten Founding Father," PH, Autumn 1996.
• Robert E. Wright, "Artisans, Banks, Credit, and the Election of 1800," PHMB, July 1998
• Neil L. York, "The First Continental Congress and the Problem of American Rights," PMHB, October 1998.

Newspapers

• The Pennsylvania Gazette, database via Falvey Library.
• Pennsylvania Evening Post (January 24, 1775-March 22, 1777), on microfilm.

Exhibits and historic sites

• Visit one or more of the buildings at Independence National Historical Park: Independence Hall, Congress Hall, Old City Hall, Franklin Court, Carpenter's Hall, City Tavern, Todd House, Bishop White House. Check for hours and ticket information before you go: http://www.nps.gov/inde.
• Betsy Ross House, on Arch Street between Second and Third.
• Lights of Liberty tour, information at www.lightsofliberty.org
• National Constitution Center, Arch Street between Fifth and Sixth; concentrate on exhibit of Philadelphia life at the time of the Constitutional Convention.

FOR OCTOBER 1:

Philadelphia / the Market Revolution / Urban disorder (Weigley Ch. 6-7-8, 1800-1854)

Articles / Book chapters

• Deborah C. Andrews, "Bank Buildings in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia," in William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette Jr., eds., The Divided Metropolis.
• Polly Beckham, "A Little Cache of Green: The Savings Habits of Irish Immigrant Women in 1850 Philadelphia," PH, Spring 2002.
• Stuart Blumin, "Residential Mobility Within the Nineteenth-Century City," in Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller, eds., The Peoples of Philadelphia
• Valentijn Byvanck, "Public Portraits and Portrait Publics," PH Supplemental Issue, Vol. 65, 1998 ("Explorations in Early American Culture").
• Ric Northrup Caric, "'To Drown the Ills That Discompose the Mind': Care, Leisure, and Identity Among Philadelphia Artisans and Workers, 1785-1840, PH, Autumn 1997.
• Marcia Carlisle, "Disorderly City, Disorderly Women: Prostitution in Ante-Bellum Philadelphia," PMHB, October 1986. 
• Gail Farr Casterline, "St. Joseph's and St. Mary's: The Origins of Catholic Hospitals in Philadelphia," PMHB, July 1984.
• Dennis J. Clark, "The Philadelphia Irish: Persistent Presence," in Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller, eds., The Peoples of Philadelphia. (book on reserve)
• Dennis J. Clark, " 'Ramcat' and Rittenhouse Square: Related Communities," in William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette Jr., eds., The Divided Metropolis. (book on reserve) 
• Susan G. Davis, "The Career of Colonel Pluck: Folk Drama and Popular Protest in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia," PMHB, April 1985.
• Michael Feldberg, "Urbanization as a Cause of Violence: Philadelphia as a Test Case," in Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller, eds., The Peoples of Philadelphia. (book on reserve)
• J. William Frost, "Pennsylvania Institutes Religious Liberty, 1682-1860," PMHB, July 1988.
• Howard Gillette Jr., "The Emergence of the Modern Metropolis: Philadelphia in the Age of Its Consolidation," in William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette Jr., eds., The Divided Metropolis. (book on reserve)
• Frank Gerrity, "The Disruption of the Philadelphia Whigocracy: Joseph R. Chandler, Anti-Catholicism, and the Congressional Election of 1854," PMHB, April 1987.
• Sidney Hart, " 'To Encrease the Comforts of Life': Charles Willson Peale and the Mechanical Arts," PMHB, July 1986.
• Theodore Hershberg, "Free Blacks in Antebellum Philadelphia," in Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller, eds., The Peoples of Philadelphia. (book on reserve)
• Carol E. Hevner, "Rembrandt Peale's Life in Art," PMHB, January 1986.
• Francis W. Hoeber, "Drama in the Courtroom, Theater in the Streets: Philadelphia's Irish Riot of 1831," PMHB, July 2001.
• Robert D. Ilisevich, "Henry Baldwin and Andrew Jackson: A Political Relationship in Trust?" PMHB, January/April 1996.
• Nancy Isenberg, "'To Stand out in Heresy': Lucretia Mott, Liberty, and the Hysterical Woman," PMHB, January 2003.
• Edith Jeffrey, "Reform, Renewal, and Vindication: Irish Immigrants and the Catholic Total Abstinence Movement in Antebellum Philadelphia," PMHB, July 1988.
• David R. Johnson, "Crime Patterns in Philadelphia, 1840-70," in Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller, eds., The Peoples of Philadelphia. (book on reserve)
• Richard R. John and Thomas C. Leonard, "The Illusion of the Ordinary: John Lewis Krimmel's Village Tavern and the Democratization of Public Life in America," PH, Winter 1998.
• William C. Kashatus III, "The Inner Light and Popular Enlightenment: Philadelphia Quakers and Charity Schooling, 1790-1820," PMHB, January/April 1994.
• Albrecht Koschnik, "Political Conflict and Public Contest: Rituals of National Celebration in Philadelphia, 1788-1815," PMHB, July 1994.
• Marie Lindhorst, "Politics in a Box: Sarah Mapps Douglass and the Female Literary Association, 1831-1833," PH Summer 1998.
• Emma Jones Lapsansky, "Friends, Wives, and Strivings: Networks and Community Values Among Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Afro-American Elites," PMHB, January 1984.
• Emma Jones Lapsansky, "Friends, Wives, and Strivings: Networks and Community Values Among Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Afro-American Elites," PMHB, January 1984.
• Bruce Laurie, "Fire Companies and Gangs in Southwark: The 1840s," in Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller, eds., The Peoples of Philadelphia. (book on reserve)
• Dale Light, "The Reformation of Philadelphia Catholicism, 1830-1860," PMHB, July 1988.
• Michael P. McCarthy, "The Philadelphia Consolidation of 1854: A Reappraisal," PMHB, October 1986.
• Colleen McDannell, "The Religious Symbolism of Laurel Hill Cemetery," PMHB, July 1987.
• Mary McConaghy, "The Whitaker Mill, 1813-1843: A Case Study of Workers, Technology, and Community in Early Industrial Philadelphia," PH, January 1984.
• Lillian B. Miller, "In the Shadow of His Father: Rembrandt Peale, Charles Willson Peale, and the American Portrait Tradition," PMHB, January 1986.
• Charlene Mires, "Slavery, Nativism, and the Forgotten History of Independence Hall," PH, Autumn 2000 (Revised).
• Charlene Mires, Chapter 3 ("Relic") or Chapter 4 ("Shrine") in Independence Hall in American Memory (book on reserve).
• Gary Nash, Chapter 5 ("A City in Flux") in First City (book on reserve).
• Richard Newman, "Not the Only Story in 'Amistad': The Fictional Joadson and the Real James Forten," PH, Spring 2000.
• James F. O'Gorman, "A New York Architect Visits Philadelphia in 1822," PMHB, July 1993.
• Leslie Patrick, "Ann Hinson: A Little-Known Woman in the Country's Premier Prison, Eastern State Penitentiary, 1831," PH, Summer 2000.
• Richard W. Pointer, "Philadelphia Presbyterians, Capitalism, and the Morality of Economic Success, 1825-1855," PMHB, July 1988.
• Angelo Repousis, "'The Cause of the Greeks': Philadelphia and the Greek War for Independence," PMHB, October 1999.
• Donna J. Rilling, "Sylvan Enterprise and the Philadelphia Hinterland, 1790-1840," PH, Spring 2000.
• Jeffrey P. Roberts, "Railroads and the Downtown: Philadelphia, 1830-1900," in William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette Jr., eds., The Divided Metropolis. (book on reserve)
• Martha C. Slotten, "Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson: A Poet in 'The Athens of North America,' " PMHB, July 1984.
• Leslie Patrick-Stamp, "Numbers that Are Not New: African Americans in the Country's First Prison, 1790-1835," PMHB, January/April 1995.
• Eric Ledell Smith, "The End of Black Voting Rights in Pennsylvania; African Americans and the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1837-1838," PH, Summer 1998.
• Terri L. Premo, "'Like a Being Who Does Not Belong': The Old Age of Deborah Norris Logan," PMHB, January 1983.
• Nina de Angeli Walls, "Art and Industry in Philadelphia: Origins of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, 1848 to 1876," PMHB, July 1993.
• Thomas E. Will, "Liberalism, Republicanism, and Philadelphia's Black Elite in the Early Republic: The Social Thought of Absalom Jones and Richard Allen," PH, Autumn 2002.
• Julie Winch, "Philadelphia and the Other Underground Railroad," PMHB, January 1987.
• Sam Bass Warner, The Private City, any two chapters from among Chapters 3-7.  (book on reserve)

Newspapers (on microfilm):

• Pennsylvania Freeman (January 1846-June 1854 with gaps) - Weekly paper; scan one month.
• Philadelphia Public Ledger (starts w/ March 25, 1836) - Daily paper; scan one week.

 Exhibits and historic sites

• Visit Laurel Hill Cemetery, Ridge Avenue adjacent to Fairmount Park. Info: http://www.forever-care.com/
• Visit Eastern State Penitentiary.  Info:  http://www.easternstatepenitentiary.org
• Visit the Fairmount Waterworks, behind the Art Museum (make sure to see the new interpretive center). Info: http://www.fairmountwaterworks.org/

Electives for October 29: 

The Evolving City (Weigley Ch. 9-10-11, 1854-1905)

Articles / Book chapters

• Thomas L. Altheri, "'The Most Summery, Bold, Free and Spacious Game': Charles King Newcomb and Philadelphia Baseball, 1866-1871," PH, April 1985.
• John L. Blackman Jr., "The Seizure of the Reading Railroad in 1864," PMHB, January 1987.
• David Chapin, "'Science Weeps, Humanity Weeps, the World Weeps': America Mourns Elisha Kent Kane," PMHB, October 1999.
• Gretchen A. Condran, Henry Williams, and Rose A. Cheney, "The Decline in Mortality in Philadelphia from 1870 to 1930: The Role of Municipal Services," PMHB, April 1984.
• David R. Contosta, "George Woodward, Philadelphia Progressive," PMHB, July 1987. 
• Mary Francis Cordato, "Towards a New Century: Women and the Philadelphia Exhibition, 1876," PMHB, January 1983.
• W.E.B. DuBois, The Philadelphia Negro (1899) (Read any 25 pages from any part except the first chapter).
• Bruce J. Evensen, "'It's Harder Getting into the Depot than Heaven': Dwight Moody, Mass Media, and the Philadelphia Revival of 1875-76," PH, Spring 2002.
• Thomas Everly, "Searching for Charley Ross," PH, Summer 2000.
• Roger A. Fischer, " 'Holy John' Wanamaker: Color Cartoon Centerfold," PMHB, October 1991.
• James M. Gallman, "Preserving the Peace: Order and Disorder in Civil War Philadelphia," PH, October 1988.
• Joseph George Jr., "The World Will Little Note? The Philadelphia Press and the Gettysburg Address," PMHB, July 1990.
• Stephanie W. Greenberg, "The Relationship between Work and Residence in an Industrializing City: Philadelphia, 1880," in William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette Jr., eds., The Divided Metropolis.  (book on reserve)
• Stephen G. Hall, "To Render the Private Public: William Still and the Selling of The Underground Railroad," PMHB, January 2003.
• John H. Hepp IV, "'Such a Well-Behaved Train Station: Evolving Spatial Patterns at Philadelphia's Late Victorian Central Passenger Depots, 1876-1901," PH, Winter 2003.
• Jeffrey Howe, "A 'Monster Edifice'" Ambivalence, Appropriation, and the Forging of Cultural Identity at the Centennial Exhibition," PMHB October 2002.
• Nancy Isenberg, "'To Stand out in Heresy': Lucretia Mott, Liberty, and the Hysterical Woman," PMHB, January 2003.
• Emma Jones Lapsansky, "Feminism, Freedom, and Community: Charlotte Forten and Women Activists in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia," PMHB, January 1989.
• Emma Jones Lapsansky, "Friends, Wives, and Strivings: Networks and Community Values Among Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Afro-American Elites," PMHB, January 1984.
• Mitch Kachun, "Before the Eyes of All Nations: African-American Identity and Historical Memory at the Centennial Exposition of 1876," PH, Summer 1998.
• Michael P. McCarthy, "Traditions in Conflict: The Philadelphia City Hall Site Controversy," PH, October 1990.
• Charlene Mires, Chapter 5, "Legacy," OR Chapter 6, "Place and Symbol: The Liberty Bell Ascendant," in Independence Hall in American Memory (book on reserve).
• Edward T. Morman, "Guarding Against Alien Impurities: The Philadelphia Lazaretto, 1854-1893," PMHB, April 1984.
• Gary Nash, Chapter 7, "In Civil War and Reconstruction," OR Chapter 8, "Workshop of the World, Schoolhouse of History," in First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (book on reserve).
• Jeffrey P.l Roberts, "Railroads and the Downtown: Philadelphia, 1830-1900," in William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette Jr., eds., The Divided Metropolis. (book on reserve)
• Harry C. Silcox, "The Black 'Better Class' Political Dilemma: Philadelphia Prototype Isaiah C. Wears," PMHB, January 1989.
• Domenic Vitiello, "Engineering the Metropolis: William Sellers, Joseph M. Wilson, and Industrial Philadelphia," PMHB, April 2002.
• Thomas R. Winpenny, "The Phoenix Tower and the Struggling Centennial Exposition of 1876: A Tale of What Might Have Been," PMHB, October 2000.

Additional journal article (in Falvey stacks)

• Michael P. McCarthy, "The Unhappy Tale of Building Philadelphia's City Hall," Pennsylvania Heritage (note: not Pennsylvania History), vol. 16, no. 3 (1990).

Journal article, full text available via database America: History and Life:

• Robert Kanigel, "Frederick Taylor's Apprenticeship," Wilson Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3 (1996)

Journal article, full text available via database JSTOR:

• Linda M. Perkins, "Heed Life's Demands: The Educational Philosophy of Fanny Jackson Coppin," Journal of Negro Education, vol. 51, no. 3 (1982).

Newspapers

• Philadelphia Public Ledger (on microfilm; read one week)

Exhibits, historic sites, and tours

• Visit the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia (7th St. north of Market, Center City; closed Tuesdays; admission $5). Information at www.philadelphiahistory.org. Concentrate on the portions of the first floor exhibit devoted to the Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia industry.
• Tour Philadelphia City Hall (weekdays, 12:30 p.m., admission charge).
• Explore Philadelphia transportation systems of the turn of the century, 12th and Market Streets:  Visit the Reading Terminal Train Shed (look for panels about the terminal's history) and Reading Terminal Market, and the SEPTA Transit Museum across the street at 1234 Market Street.
• Take your own 19th-century downtown walking tour.  Include any three or more of the following: Strawbridge's Department Store; Reading Terminal Train Shed and Reading Terminal Market; Lord and Taylor (Wanamaker's Department Store); City Hall; The Academy of Music (Broad and Locust Streets).  What do you see that is reminiscent of the central business district of the time we have been studying?  How has the downtown changed over time?

Also:  Visit Eastern State Penitentiary, BUT you must learn about the prison's history for the time period of this set of electives.

Electives for November 12:

Philadelphia, the New Immigration, and the Great Migration from the South (Weigley Ch. 12-13-14, 1905-1946)

Articles / Book chapters

• Charles Pete Banner-Haley, "The Philadelphia Tribune and the Persistence of Black Republicanism During the Great Depression," PH vol. 65, no. 2 (1998).
• Jerome P. Bjelopera, "White Collars and Blackface: Race and Leisure among Clerical and Sales Workers in Early Twentieth-Century Philadelphia," PMHB, July 2002.
• Becky Briesacher, "Philadelphia's Gallery of Sacred Fakes," PMHB vo. 115, no. 1 (1991).
• John F. Bauman, "Public Housing in the Depression: Slum Reform in Philadelphia Neighborhoods in the 1930s," in William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette Jr., eds., The Divided Metropolis.
• Bradley C. Brooks, "The Would-Be Philadelphian: Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Author and Antiquarian," PMHB, October 2001.
• David R. Contosta, "Philadelphia's 'Miniature Williamsburg'" The Colonial Revival and Germantown's Market Square," PMHB, October 1996.
• Gretchen A. Condran, Henry Williams, and Rose A. Cheney, "The Decline in Mortality in Philadelphia from 1870 to 1930: The Role of Municipal Services," PMHB, April 1984.
• David R. Contosta, "Suburban Quasi Government in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PMHB vol 116, no. 3 (1992).
• William W. Cutler III, "In Search of Influence and Authority: Parents and the Politics of the Home-School Relationship in Philadelphia and Two of Its Suburbs, 1905-1935," PH, Summer 1996.
• Bruce J. Evensen, "'Saving the City's Reputation': Philadelphia's Struggle Over Self-Identity, Sabbath-Breaking and Boxing in America's Sesquicentennial Year," PH vol. 60, no. 1 (1993).
• Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, "Industrial Unionism and Labor Movement Culture in Depression-Era Philadelphia," January 1985.
• Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, "Sound Comes to the Movies: The Philadelphia Musicians' Struggle Against Recorded Music," PMHB, January/April 1994.
• Ken Fones-Wolf, "Mass Strikes, Corporate Strategies: The Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Philadelphia General Strike of 1910," PMHB, July 1986.
• V.P. Franklin, "'Voice of the Black Community': The Philadelphia Tribune, 1912-41," PH, October 1984. 
• David Glassberg, "Public Ritual and Cultural Hierarchy: Philadelphia's Civic Celebrations at the Turn of the Century," PMHB, July 1983.
• Caroline Golab, "The Immigrant and the City: Poles, Italians, and Jews in Philadelphia, 1870-1920," in Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller, eds., The Peoples of Philadelphia. (book on reserve)
• Robert S. Gregg, "The Earnest Pastor's Heated Term: Robert J. Williams's Pastorate at 'Mother' Bethel, 1916-1920," PMHB, vol. 113, no. 1 (1989).  
• Mark H. Haller, "Philadelphia Bootlegging and the Report of the Special August Grand Jury," PMHB vol. 102, no. 2 (1985).
• Timothy Heinrichs, " 'Onward Christian Soldiers': Philadelphia's Revival of 1905," PMHB, July 1994.
• Charles F. Howlett, "John Nevin Sayre and the American Fellowship of Reconciliation," PMHB, July 1990.
• Arthur R. Jarvis Jr., "The Living Newspaper in Philadelphia, 1938-1939," PH, July 1994.
• Arthur R. Jarvis, "Philadelphia's Depression Orchestras: Contrasts Between the WPA Civic Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1935-1942," PH, Summer 1999.
• Neil Lanctot, "Fair Dealing and Clean Playing: Ed Bolden and the Hilldale Club, 1910-1932," PMHB vol. 117, no. 1-2 (1993).
• Maryann Lovelace, "Facing Change in Wartime Philadelphia: The Story of the Philadelphia USO," PMHB, vol. 123, no. 3 (1999).  
• Stefano Luconi, "Bringing Out the Italian-American Vote in Philadelphia," PMHB, October 1993.
• Stefano Luconi, "The Changing Meaning of Ethnic Identity among Italian Americans in Philadelphia during the Inter-war Years," PH, Autumn 1996.
• Edward Johanningsmeier, "Philadelphia 'Skittereen' and William Z. Foster: The Childhood of an American Communist," PMHB, October 1993.
• Margaret S. Marsh, "The Impact of the Market Street 'El' on Northern West Philadelphia: Environmental Change and Social Transformation, 1900-1930," in William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette Jr., eds., The Divided Metropolis. (book on reserve).
• Nancy Mowll Mathews, "'The Greatest Woman Painter': Cecilia Beaux, Mary Cassatt, and Issues of Female Fame," PMHB, July 2000.
• Michael P. McCarthy, "The Unprogressive City: Philadelphia and Urban Stereotypes at the Turn of the Century," PH, October 1987.
• Frederick Miller, "The Black Migration to Philadelphia: A 1924 Profile," PMHB vol. 108, no. 3 (1984).
• Charlene Mires, Chapter 7, "Treasure," in Independence Hall in American Memory (book on reserve).
• Frederick Platt, "Horace Trumbauer: A Life in Architecture," PMHB, October 2001.
• Naomi Rogers, "The Proper Place of Homeopathy: Hahneman Medical College and Hospital in an Age of Scientific Medicine," PMHB, April 1984.
• John P. Rossi, "The Kelly-Wilson Mayoralty Election of 1935," PMHB, April 1983.
• John P. Rossi, "Philadelphia's Forgotten Mayor: S. Davis Wilson," PH, April 1984.
• Mark Schneyer, "Mothers and Children, Poverty and Morality: A Social Worker's Priorities, 1915," PMHB, April 1988.
• Susan Trumbull Shoemaker, "The Philadelphia Pediatric Society and Its Milk Commission, 1896-1917: An Aspect of Urban Progressive Reform," PH, October 1986.
• Henry A. Silcox, "Henry Disston's Model Industrial Community: Nineteenth-Century Paternalism in Tacony, Philadelphia," PMHB, October 1990.
• John F. Sutherland, "Housing the Poor in the City of Homes: Philadelphia at the Turn of the Century," in Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller, eds., The Peoples of Philadelphia. (book on reserve)
• George E. Thomas, "'The Happy Employment of Means to Ends': Frank Furness's Library of the University of Pennsylvania and the Industrial Culture of Philadelphia," PMHB, April 2002.
• Jeanette M. Toohey, 'Intricacies and interdependencies'" Cecilia Beaux and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts," PMHB, July 2000.
• Richard A. Varbero, "Philadelphia's South Italians in the 1920s," in Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller, eds., The Peoples of Philadelphia. (book on reserve)
• Maxwell Whiteman, "Philadelphia's Jewish Neighborhoods," in Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller, eds., The Peoples of Philadelphia. (book on reserve)
• Robert James Young Jr., "Arsenic and No Lace: The Bizarre Tale of a Philadelphia Murder Ring," PH, Summer 2000.
• Sam Bass Warner, The Private City, Chapters 8, 9, and 10. (book on reserve).

Other articles in journals in the Falvey stacks:

• Patricia Bradley, "John Wanamaker's 'Temple of Patriotism' Defines Early 20th Century Advertising and Brochures," American Journalism, vol. 15, no. 2 (1998).
• Bobbye J. Burke, "St. Charles Borromeo Parish South Philadelphia, 1868-1993), Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, vol. 104, no. 1-4 (1993).
• John S. Custer, "Byzantine Rite Slavs in Philadelphia, 1886-1916, Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, vol. 104, no. 1-4 (1993).
• Joseph P. Eckhardt, "The Effect is Quite Startling: Siegmund Lubin's Attempts to Commercially Exploit Sound Motion Pictures," Film History, vol. 11, no. 4 (1999).
• Martha Paxson Grundy, "The Bethany Mission for Colored People: Philadelphia Friends and a Sunday School Mission," Quaker History vol. 90, no. 1 (2001).
• Richard N. Juliani, "The Parish as an Urban Institution: Italian Catholics in Philadelphia," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, vol. 96, no. 1-4 (1986).
• Howard Kimeldorf and Robert Penney, "'Excluded by Choice': Dynamics of Interracial Unionism on the Philadelphia Waterfront 1910-1930," International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 51 (1997).
• Paul Frazier, "Profitable Trickle: The Diverson of Industrial Alcohol in Prohibition Philadelphia," Prologue 1994, vol. 26, no. 4 (1994).
• Lisa McGirr, "Black and White Longshoremen in the IWW: A History of the Philadelphia Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union Local 8, Labor History, vol. 36, no. 3 (1995).
• Raymond A. Mohl, "Cultural Pluralism in Immigrant Education: The International Institutes of Boston, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, 1920-1940," Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 1, no. 2 (1982).
• T.B. Priest, "Elite and Upper Class in Philadelphia, 1914," Sociological Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 3 (1984).
• Francis J. Ryan, "A Missing Piece of the 1918 Dewey Report on the Philadelphia Polish Community: Mary Frances Bradshaw's Ethnographic Study of the Polish Catholic Schools,"  Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, vol. 104, no. 1-4 (1993).
• Francis J. Ryan, "Monsignor John Bonner and Progressive Education in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, 1924-1945," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, vol. 102, no. 1-2 (1991).
• Mark W. Sullivan, "Thomas Eakins and His Portrait of Father Fedigan," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, vol. 109, no. 3-4, (1998/1999).

Additional articles available in full text via database "America: History and Life":

• Steven Conn, "An Epistemology for Empire: The Philadelphia Commercial Museum, 1893-1926," Diplomatic History, vol. 22, no. 4 (1998).
• William C. Kashatus, "Dick Allen, the Phillies, and Racism," Nine, vol. 9, no. 1-2 (2000-01).
• Roger Lane, "Black Philadelphia, Then and Now," Public Interest, vol. 108 (1992).
• Eric J. Sandeen, "The Design of Public Housing in the New Deal: Oskar Stonorov and the Carl Mackley Houses," American Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 5 (1985).
• Keith A. Sculle, "Atlantic Refining Company's Monumental Service Stations in Philadelphia, 1917-1919," Journal of American & Comparative Cultures, vol. 23, no. 2 (2000).

Newspapers (all on microfilm; read any one week)

• Philadelphia Public Ledger (ends April 15, 1934)
• Philadelphia Inquirer (begins January 1, 1920).
• Philadelphia Tribune (African American newspaper; begins January 6, 1912).

Exhibits, historic sites, and tours

• Visit the Italian Market (Ninth Street south of Catharine) and talk to at least one Italian merchant about the origins of the family's business.
• Visit the Philadelphia Transit Museum, 1234 Market St. (free).
• Take a walk on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway; start at 16th and Arch Streets, at the historical marker in LOVE Park which illustrates the neighborhood before and after the Parkway's construction.
• "The Way We Lived: Philadelphia Housing and Reform, 1890-1955," exhibit at Temple University Paley Library (the main library, which also houses the Urban Archives).  Exhibition features images and housing reform literature from organizations working to improve housing conditions in Philadelphia during the first half of the twentieth century.

Electives for December 3:

Post-war and Post-Industrial Philadelphia (1946-1982)

Articles and book chapters

• John F. Bauman, "The Expressway 'Motorists Love to Hate': Philadelphia and the First Era of Postwar Highway Planning, 1943-1956," PMHB, October 1991.
• John F. Bauman, "Expressways, Public Housing, and Renewal: A Blueprint for Postwar Philadelphia, 1945-1960," PH, vol. 57, no. 1 (1990).
• Jon S. Birger, "Race, Reaction and Reform: The Three Rs of Philadelphia School Politics, 1965-1971," PMHB, vol. 120, no. 3 (1996).
• Patricia Cooper, "The Limits of Persuasion: Race Reformers and the Department Store Campaign in Philadelphia, 1945-1948," PMHB, vol. 126, no. 1 (2002).
• David Contosta, "Philadelphia's 'Miniature Williamsburg': The Colonial Revival and Germantown's Market Square," PMHB, vol. 120, no. 4 (1996).
• Wesley Hogan, "How Democracy Travels: SNCC, Swarthmore Students, and the Growth of the Student Movement in the North, 1961-64," PMHB, July 2002.
• James A. Kehl, "Philadelphia 1948: City of Crucial Conventions," PH, Spring 2000.
• G. Terry Madonna and John Morrison McLarnon III, "Reform in Philadelphia: Joseph S. Clark, Richardson Dilworth, and the Women Who Made Reform Possible, 1947-49," PMHB, January 2003.
• Charlene Mires, Chapter 8, "Anchor" OR Chapter 9, "Prism," in Independence Hall in American Memory (book on reserve).

Other articles in bound periodicals (Falvey stacks):

• Janna L. Dieckmann, "From Almshouse to City Nursing Home: Philadelphia's Riverview Home for the Aged, 1945-1965," Nursing History Review, vol. 1 (1993).
• William C. Kashatus, "Preserving Philadelphia: A Conversation with Charles E. Peterson, FAIA," Pennsylvania Heritage (note: not Pennsylvania History), vol. 24, no. 4 (1998).
• Amy E. Menzer, "Exhibiting Philadelphia's 'Vital Center': Negotiating Environmental and Civic Reform in a Popular Postwar Planning Vision," Radical History Review, vol. 74 (1999).
• Marc Stein, "Sex Politics in the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves," Radical History Review, vol. 59 (1994).

Other articles linked through the database America: History and Life:

• Robert V. Head, "UNIVAC: A Philadelphia Story," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 23, no. 3 (2001).
• Margaret Rose, "'Woman Power Will Stop Those Grapes': Chicana Organizers and Middle-Class Female Supporters in the Farm Workers' Grape Boycott in Philadelphia, 1969-1970," Journal of Women's History, vol. 7, no. 4 (1995).
• David Witwer, "Local Rank and File Militancy: The Battle for Teamster Reform in Philadelphia in the Early 1960s," Labor History, vol. 41, no. 3 (2000).

Newspapers (on microfilm; read any one week)

• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Philadelphia Tribune

Historic sites, Museums, Tours:
The "Skyscrapers" tour in the "Walk Philadelphia" series (offered on November 23) would be appropriate for this week.