Like all over America, life was hard around Valentine’s Day of 1934 in Depression-era Philadelphia. And like all aspects of […]
John Rossi: When Olney was a ‘suburb’
I grew up in the years just after World War II in a pleasant contained place that I call Lower […]
Robert Cherry: The Philadelphia slavery exhibit is seriously flawed
There has been outrage in some quarters over the announcement that the Trump Administration would be reevaluating the “Freedom and […]
Thom Nickels: When Walt Whitman came to Germantown
The poet Walt Whitman visited Germantown on a number of occasions. Perhaps his most noteworthy visit was recorded by Katherine […]
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: Five decisive Decembers in Philly history
To be Philadelphian affords you access to the legacy of living in a city that holds within its limits some […]
John Rossi: The boys of Fifth Street
Between 1950 and 1954, from the age of 14 to 17, along with a handful of my friends, my second […]
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: A headless horseman on the Delaware?
The history of the City of Philadelphia — some of the deepest going back all the way to the very […]
Gerard St. John: Joe Rosenthal’s Iwo Jima
It is a magnificent photograph. Look at it closely. It is the fifth day of the 36-day Battle of Iwo Jima; […]
