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Bravery and Bad Deeds During the Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1793

Bigotry in the Quaker City and the Burning of Pennsylvania Hall

Loyal Classmen

Exploring the Rizzo Boycott of 1967

10 years ago I was working on an article about the local civil rights movement for the now-defunct Legacies magazine of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. I came across this flyer in…

Honoring Universal Suffrage & the Election Day Riots of 1871

11.04.19 /Hidden City Philadelphia

Examining Class and Racial Dynamics On The Anniversary Of The 1918 Riots In South Philadelphia

07.25.19 /Hidden City Philadelphia

Unraveling Myths About Philly’s Pioneering African American Architect

05.23.19 /Hidden City Philadelphia

Reading and Watching Like a Historian: Using Documents to Teach Sisters in Freedom

09.01.18 /Social Studies Journal

Other Writing

Bravery and Bad Deeds During the Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1793

Bigotry in the Quaker City and the Burning of Pennsylvania Hall

Loyal Classmen

Exploring the Rizzo Boycott of 1967

Honoring Universal Suffrage & the Election Day Riots of 1871

Examining Class and Racial Dynamics On The Anniversary Of The 1918 Riots In South Philadelphia

Unraveling Myths About Philly’s Pioneering African American Architect

Reading and Watching Like a Historian: Using Documents to Teach Sisters in Freedom

In The Aftermath of Charlottesville, Counting on The Catto Memorial

The Civil Rights Era Philly Style: Using Primary Sources to Document Race

A great man, but not the whole movement

This history is a special one

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