Found in Philadelphia: episodes

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1. Episode No. 12 – Philly Streets in the Early Republic

   Jun 27, 2022 · 31 min

   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 in its past. Street life ebbed and flowed around a boozy calendar of events, where the powerful displayed the proper order of things, and the working class turned that proper order on its head. Find

2. Episode No. 11 – The American Revolution on Philly’s Streets

   Jun 6, 2022 · 32 min

   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 ground for seeing how the ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were lived by people on the street. The city was a place of divided loyalties and social divisions that played out in public.

3. Episode No. 10 – Philly Streets in the 1700s

   May 23, 2022 · 32 min

   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 see it in the streets. From small colonial town, to the largest city in British North America, Philadelphia’s wealth and prosperity is built with the bound labor of enslaved Africans and desperately

4. Episode No. 9 – A Guide to Why Streets Matter, plus Philly’s Early Streets

   May 9, 2022 · 32 min

   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 streets were always there, pretty much doing the same thing. But our streets have a history too. In this episode, we’ll get in to why streets, and their history, matter. And then we’ll discuss some of the

5. Episode No. 8 – History of the Street… Coming soon!

   May 2, 2022 · 2 min

   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 out some Philly history in the news: The amazing Sha’von Smith and the Grounded Theatre Company continue to produce original works that are inspired by history. See what they’re up to next at www.grounded

6. Episode No. 7 – Women and the Centennial

   Jan 13, 2021 · 34 min

   Women are organizing to fund raise for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, a moment when our city and our nation will be at the center of an international stage. The United States will be celebrating 100 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The country has just survived a bloody Civil War and is in the middle of Reconstruction. But questions remain about whose co

7. Episode No. 6 – Philadelphia Public Schools and Caroline Le Count: Part 2

   Nov 25, 2020 · 37 min

   Philadelphia, 1867. A 21-year-old Black woman was recently appointed principal of a new public school on a small alley in the Seventh Ward. This woman is Caroline Le Count, and she will go on to build the largest Philadelphia public school with an all Black student body, and an all Black teaching staff. But Le Count’s successful experiment will be short lived, and we are still living with the cons

8. Episode No. 5 – Philadelphia Public Schools and Caroline R. Le Count: Part 1

   Oct 27, 2020 · 25 min

   In this city, there are very different educational opportunities for the wealthy and the poor. But reformers and activists are trying to find ways to provide an education for all children. It is the beginning of a colossal and imperfect experiment in publicly-funded schools in nineteenth-century Philadelphia. One group in particular, Black Philadelphians, was determined not to be left out of this

9. Episode No. 4 – The Life and Times of Caroline R. Le Count: Part 2

   May 19, 2020 · 32 min

   A city at war with a not-so-distant enemy, hospitals overwhelmed and spilling over into temporary tents, nurses asking citizens to donate critical supplies, it’s Philadelphia in 1863. Philadelphia was central to the Union war machine during the Civil War, but that doesn’t mean it was a bastion of abolitionist sentiment. As the war exposes deep inequality in the city, some citizens see an opportun

10. Episode No. 3 – The Life and Times of Caroline R. Le Count: Part 1

    May 5, 2020 · 35 min

    An important moment of the Civil Rights movement happened right here in Philadelphia, and it took place nearly 100 years earlier than the well-known demonstrations of the twentieth century. Philadelphia in the 1860s was a city on the move. The city was growing fast and developing new city-wide services, but progress wasn’t being felt equally by all of its residents. Philadelphia’s free Black popu

11. Episode 2: The Aftermath of the Germantown Protest

    Jan 25, 2020 · 32 min

    Early colonial Philadelphia was a place of contention. Colonists had strong opinions about what this Quaker experiment should look like, and they didn’t always agree. From its earliest days, Philadelphia was a diverse place with class divisions, religious discord, and economic inequality. These fractures in the young colony were intensified by the practice of slavery by the wealthy Quaker elite. B

12. Episode 1: The Germantown Protest of 1688

    Nov 19, 2019 · 32 min

    I became interested in the story of the Germantown Protest of 1688 after hearing about it on another podcast, the “Seeing White” series by the Scene on Radio podcast. I highly recommend the entire series, but “Episode 33: Made in America” was where I first heard about the Germantown Protest. I was surprised that I had never heard of it before, being a Philadelphia history nerd. So, of course, I ru