Found in Philadelphia

Found in Philadelphia episodes:

• 05.14.2024

  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 the homes of...

  
• 12.19.2023

  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 experienced the street. For some, it was a time of marvels. For others, it...

  
• 06.27.2023

  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 century baseball as we uncover the precarious place of...

  
• 04.25.2023

  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 series on the history of Philly’s streets. It details the...

  
• 03.28.2023

  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 flowed through Philly streets, where city residents...

  
• 02.28.2023

  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, the streetcar transformed Philly streets. It filled a major gap...

  
• 12.06.2022

  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 the ashes of...

  
• 10.18.2022

  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 reforms, which were derailed by an economic collapse. In the...

  
• 06.27.2022

  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 in its past. Street life ebbed and...

  
• 06.06.2022

  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 ground for seeing how the ideas of...

  
• 05.23.2022

  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 see it in the...

  
• 05.09.2022

  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 streets were always there, pretty much...

  
• 05.02.2022

  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 out some Philly history in the...

  
• 01.13.2021

  Episode No. 7 – Women and the Centennial

  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...

  
• 11.25.2020

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

  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...

  
• 10.27.2020

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

  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...

  
• 05.19.2020

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

  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...

  
• 05.05.2020

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

  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...

  
• 01.25.2020

  Episode 2: The Aftermath of the Germantown Protest

  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...

  
• 01.25.2020

  Episode 2: The Aftermath of the Germantown Protest

  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...

  
• 11.19.2019

  Episode 1: The Germantown Protest of 1688

  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...

  
• 11.19.2019

  Episode 1: The Germantown Protest of 1688

  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...