Philadelphia

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  12/14/2022
  

  Philly's Columbus Statue is Out of the Box—So is the Discussion About His Legacy

  Historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries talks about controversial statues: one removed in Richmond, and one uncovered in Philadelphia.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  7/4/2022
  

  Philly Plan for Tubman Memorial Draws Fire: Were Black Artists Excluded?

  The city awarded a commission for a permanent statue to Wesley Wofford, who designed a traveling memorial that had graced City Hall. Local artists, many Black, argued that the call wasn't fair and open. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  6/8/2022
  

  Inventing Solitary Confinement

  Kali Nicole Gross, Ashley Rubin, Jen Manion and Paul Takagi offer insight into the historical irony of modern incarceration's roots in Philadelphia, the nominal cradle of American liberty. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  4/6/2022
  

  Scars and Stripes

  by Martha S. Jones

  "With that backstory embedded in its lyrics, Key’s anthem and the flag it sought to honor share a symbolic potency that has endured over two centuries. They both carry the power to divide and to unite us."

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  9/8/2021
  

  The Suburban Strategy

  Novelist Zinzi Clemmons looks to the history of Delaware County, Pennsylvania to consider, with help from historian Lara Putnam, the implications of Democrats' pursuit of the elusive suburban voter. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  6/14/2021
  

  Hyper-Segregation, Inequality, And Murder Rates — A Review Of “The Ecology Of Homicide”

  by Menika Dirkson

  The late historian Eric Schneider uses criminal court records to argue that Philadelphia's violent crime rate is an ecological phenomenon, in which public policy decisions and private actions created conditions for spikes in violence. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/13/2021
  

  The Shocking MOVE Bombing was Part of a Broader Pattern of Anti-Black Racism

  by J.T. Roane

  The Philadelphia Police Department bears responsibility for the deadly bombing of the rowhouse occupied by MOVE members, but the carnage shows a long pattern of indifference by multiple municipal departments to the health, safety, and quality of life of Black residents in the 1970s and 1980s. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Princetonian
  4/26/2021
  

  Princeton Owes the Families of the MOVE Bombing Victims Answers

  by Judith Weisenfeld, Ruha Benjamin et al.

  Members of the Princeton faculty argue that "the victims of the MOVE bombing, their families, and those of us at Princeton invested in Black history and communities deserve more" than the university's statements to date about the use of remains of the victims. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/24/2021
  

  Decades After Police Bombing, Philadelphians ‘Sickened’ by Handling of Victim’s Bones

  "Anguish came surging back when officials at two Ivy League universities acknowledged that anthropologists had been passing the bones of a young bombing victim between them for the last 36 years."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  4/26/2021
  

  The MOVE Bombing and the Callous Handling of Black Remains

  by Jessica Parr

  The remains of the victims of the Philadelphia Police Department's bombing of the MOVE organization in 1985, including two children, were acquired by the University of Pennsylvania, stored outside of climate control, passed on to Princeton, and eventually lost, a final indignity to the victims. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/13/2020
  

  35 Years After MOVE Bombing That Killed 11, Philadelphia Apologizes

  Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a row house occupied by members of a Black militant group in 1985, starting a fire that destroyed 60 homes and killed 11 people.  

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• SOURCE: Paris Review
  10/5/2020
  

  Memory Haunts: John Edgar Wideman's Fictionalized Account of the 1985 MOVE Bombing

  by Imani Perry

  Wideman's account of events leading to the bombing of MOVE by Philadelphia police "is not just a map of the city but of the nation and our collective condition."

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• SOURCE: WHYY
  6/7/2020
  

  Crews Paint over Frank Rizzo Mural in South Philadelphia

  The nonprofit organization Mural Arts Philadelphia plans to replace it with "a new mural project that can reflect the fabric of S. 9th Street."

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• 4/19/2020
  

  Thomas Jefferson, Yellow Fever, and Land Planning for Public Health

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Although Thomas Jefferson was generally an anti-urbanist, he did offer insight into the role of land use in helping towns and cities control epidemics and promote public health.

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• 4/12/2020
  

  The Local Impact of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Philadelphia

  by Jeffrey Anderson and Janet Golden

  Insufficient attention was paid to the first influenza death in the city. The United States was in the throes of the Great War, and the Kaiser, not the flu, was on the minds of Philadelphians.

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• SOURCE: Nieman Reports
  1/21/20
  

  What Happens to News When Journalists and Historians Join Forces

  How the Philadelpia Inquirer teamed up with Villanova University’s Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest and the Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships to research three issues--infrastructure, immigration, and the opioid crisis--that could benefit from a historical perspective.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/1/19
  

  244-Year-Old Rifle Stolen Decades Ago Is Returned to Museum

  The Johann Christian Oerter rifle, taken from Valley Forge State Park in 1971, will go on display at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.

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• SOURCE: Morning Call
  8/4/2019
  

  Philly’s American Revolution museum steps up to help migrants succeed

  The free, eight-session evening program aims to strengthen immigrants' understanding of the nation's revolution and evolution.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/13/19
  

  30 Years Later, Making Sense Of The MOVE Bombing

  City police had killed nearly a dozen people and, in the process, leveled an entire swath of a neighborhood full of middle-class black homeowners. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/19
  

  The Women Highlighting Women's History in Feminist Travel Guides

  For Women’s History Month, honoring the sisters in the City of Brotherly Love.