Philadelphia

Blog Post Eighty years ago, a professional women's baseball team was formed in Philadelphia. Its name came from a popular hairstyle of the time. Can you guess its name?	Blog Post Help Write Philadelphia History
Blog Post Which local transportation line opened in March 1907?	Blog Post The Challenges of Georeferencing
Blog Post Don't Rain On My Mummers Museum Parade	Blog Post Grover Bergdoll: America’s Most Wanted “Slacker”
Blog Post In what year was the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (formerly the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) founded?	Primary Source Annual Report of the Water Department, 1884
Primary Source Water Supply in Relation to Sanitation: An Address to the County Medical Society of Philadelphia	Lesson Plan Surveying the Problem of Water Supply in Philadelphia and Debating a Solution
Blog Post Sliker Photos at Bridesburg HS	Blog Post Wealthy merchant and landowner William Bingham helped establish what landmark institution in Philadelphia in 1781?
Unit Plan Baseball and Race in Post-bellum Pennsylvania	Lesson Plan Pythian's Base Ball Club: Playing for Keeps
Blog Post In 1941, Marian Anderson received what distinguished local award?	Primary Source “Purposes of the Civil-Service Reform League”
Blog Post Which U.S. President was the first to visit the University of Pennsylvania?	Lesson Plan Creating a Merit System for Pennsylvania: A Long and Winding Road
Primary Source “Pennsylvania’s Opportunity”	Primary Source Letter from Wayne MacVeagh to Edward Sayres

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Philadelphia