Philadelphia
Books
- The Parade Philadelphia, the Liberty Loan Parade, and the Deadliest Week in American History · Liszt Think
On September 28, 1918, two hundred thousand Philadelphians gathered for a Liberty Loan parade as influenza silently spread through the Navy Yard.
- The River City and Its Keepers…l College, a man who had built his reputation on sanitation reform and the suppression of typhoid. He had come to public health through the Philadelphia Department of Wharves, Docks and Ferries, an unusual path that had taught him the city’s geography of commerce and contagion—where the ship…
- The Shadow in the RanksThe posters on the walls of Philadelphia showed a doughboy fixing bayonets, his face set toward an unseen enemy. The parade was six days away. At the Navy Yard, where the Delaware…
- The Protocol of Normalcy (Mid‑September 1918)…s desk from the Fourth Federal Reserve District. The letter requested his attendance at a meeting concerning the Fourth Liberty Loan drive. Philadelphia’s quota was $259 million, the largest of any American city. The loan chairman noted that the campaign would culminate in a parade on Septem…
- The Summer the Capital Emptied Yellow Fever, Race, and the Collapse of Philadelphia in 1793 · Liszt Think
In August 1793, yellow fever struck Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital. Within weeks, George Washington fled and half the city followed. Five thousand died before the first frost. Amid the exodus, Dr.
- The Nation’s New Seat of Government…sing above the rooftops, the bell tower of the State House where the republic had declared its independence and now conducted its business. Philadelphia, the temporary capital of the United States, received them with noise: the cries of stevedores, the creak of tackle, the rumble of cart whe…
- A Philosophy of the Blood and the Bile…and a reputation that now stood at the center of American medicine. Outside his window on Walnut Street, the air hung thick and still over Philadelphia. The smell from the docks had grown strange of late—sweet beneath the tar and hemp, like fruit left to rot in a closed room. He had noticed…
- The Coffee-House Exchange and the Waterfront Stench…principle that would simplify medicine and save thousands of lives. Outside his window on Walnut Street, the city went about its business. Philadelphia in the summer of 1793 was the temporary capital of a nation still learning to govern itself, a port of roughly fifty thousand people crowde…