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Episode No. 26 – In Conversation with Elijah Anderson: Studying Culture on Philly Streets, Part 2
Over the past 50 years, the streets of Philadelphia have been a living laboratory for ethnographer Elijah Anderson. He’s been on the ground here since 1975 studying the people and the culture of our…
Episode No. 25 – In Conversation with Elijah Anderson: Studying the Culture of Philly Streets, Part 1
Over the past 50 years, the streets of Philadelphia have been a living laboratory for ethnographer Elijah Anderson. He’s been on the ground here since 1975 studying the people and the culture of our…
Episode No. 24 – Election Day on the Streets of Philadelphia (Part 4 – The 20th Century City)
Casting a ballot on Election Day transformed into a completely different experience in the early twentieth century. Generally, voting in Philadelphia moved indoors, grew safer, more inclusive, and,…
Episode No. 23 – Election Day on the Streets of Philadelphia (Part 3 – The Gilded Age City)
Voting changed after the Civil War in the newly consolidated City of Philadelphia. More men could vote on Election Day than ever before, and the vast majority of them did, though not without deadly…
Episode No. 22 – Election Day on the Streets of Philadelphia (Part 2 – The New American Capital)
The founding fathers wanted to pretend that the government of the newly formed United States stood above faction. But organizing and get out the vote tactics in the streets of Philadelphia proved…
Episode No. 21 – Election Day on the Streets of Philadelphia (Part 1 – The Colonial City)
Colonial Philadelphia’s government provided a striking contrast to the more egalitarian, consensus-driven leadership of the Native American Lenape. Election Day in colonial Philadelphia placed a…
Episode No. 20: These are the People in the Gilded Age, Part 2 – Women and Reform
These are the women’s movement histories that you haven’t heard. After the Civil War, women from all walks of life worked to make Philadelphia a better place. Some tried to clean up the streets.…
Episode No. 19: These are the People in the Gilded Age (Part 1)
When you walk around the city at night, do you enjoy the glimpses you get of other people’s well-lit homes? If you do (and who doesn’t?), then this episode is for you. We’re going to peer into…
Episode No. 18 – Philly Streets in the Gilded Age: Depression, Development, and Deadly Trolleys
Despite cycles of economic depression, Philadelphia transformed during the Gilded Age. Entire neighborhoods sprang up to house a growing population. Major infrastructure projects changed how people…
NEW Mini Episode No. 17 – Philadelphia Blue Stockings: Women and Baseball in the 19th Century
A 144-year old hotel register from Springfield, Ohio, sends us on the trail of the fly-by-night Philadelphia Blue Stockings. The pursuit will take us through the rough-and-tumble world of late 19th…
REBROADCAST Episode No. 4 – The Fight for Philly’s Streetcars
We’re rebroadcasting this earlier episode about the Black community’s fight to integrate Philly’s streetcars in the years following the Civil War 1865-1871. This story fits into the timeline of the…
Episode No. 16 – Civil War Flows through Philly Streets
Philadelphia, like the rest of the nation, was poorly prepared for war. When the Civil War broke out, the cobbled-together city became a key part of the North’s thrown-together war machine. The war…
Episode No. 15 – Streetcars Seize the Streets
In a remarkably short period of time, the newly consolidated city of Philadelphia was covered in rails. These rails ushered in a transit revolution: the horse-drawn streetcar. From 1858 to 1861,…
Episode No. 14 – Violence in the Streets: The Origins of our Modern City
What kind of city did Philadelphia want to be? There were lots of different opinions in the 1840s and 1850s, but everyone agreed: it did not want to be like this. Our modern city was born out of…
Episode No. 13 – Steam, Steam (kind of) Revolution: Philly Streets in the 1830s and 40s
This episode is all about change and disruption. Early factories were changing the way Philadelphia worked, and it wasn’t pretty. Dismal conditions brought workers together in the streets to demand…
Episode No. 12 – Philly Streets in the Early Republic
Life overflowed onto the streets of Philadelphia in the Early Republic. The streets were intensely social spaces, but could also be extremely dangerous. As the city grew, it began to take an interest…
Episode No. 11 – The American Revolution on Philly’s Streets
The United States of America was street tested in Philly. From the chaos of the American Revolution, to its role as the national capital of the early Republic, Philadelphia was a messy, testing…
Episode No. 10 – Philly Streets in the 1700s
Philadelphia in the 1700s is a tale of two cities. The city is innovative and forward thinking about improving public spaces. But the city is also a place of deeply entrenched inequality. And you can…
Episode No. 9 – A Guide to Why Streets Matter, plus Philly’s Early Streets
Streets are our most basic, and fundamental, public spaces. Cities can’t work without them. But we tend to take them for granted. The everyday-ness of the street gives us a false sense that the…
Episode No. 8 – History of the Street… Coming soon!
At long last… the Found in Philadelphia podcast is back with a new series about the history of Philly’s streets. It’s been… a pandemic. But it feels good to be back. While you’re waiting, check…
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