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The Author’s Corner with Elliott Drago

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 17, 2022

Elliott Drago is Editorial Officer of the Jack Miller Center. This interview is based on his new book, Street Diplomacy: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom in Philadelphia, 1820-1850 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Street...

The Author’s Corner with Susan Brandt

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 23, 2022

Susan Brandt is a lecturer in history at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. This interview is based on her new book, Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). JF: What led you...

It looks like Philadelphia’s Atwater Kent Collection is going to Drexel University

John Fea   |  March 22, 2022

Students of early America are familiar with the Atwater Kent Collection, some of which was on display in the now-closed Philadelphia History Museum. It now looks like the entire collection will be moving to Drexel University. Here is a taste...

A Christopher Columbus statue will remain in South Philly

John Fea   |  August 18, 2021

A Common Pleas court judge overturned the City of Philadelphia’s decision to remove the statue last year during the racial unrest following the death of George Floyd. Here is The Philadelphia Inquirer: A Philadelphia judge on Tuesday ruled that the...

Supreme Court upholds Obamacare (7-2) and religious liberty (9-0)

John Fea   |  June 17, 2021

Here is Politico on the Texas challenge to the Affordable Care Act: The Supreme Court on Thursdaythrew out a lawsuit threatening the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, finding that Republican-led states behind the case did not have legal ground...

The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth Kimball

Annie Thorn   |  April 29, 2021

Elizabeth Kimball is Assistant Professor of English at Drexel University. This interview is based on her new book, Translingual Inheritance: Language Diversity in Early National Philadelphia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write Translingual Inheritance? EK:...

Four Seasons Total Landscaping: The documentary

John Fea   |  February 9, 2021

Yes, you read that correctly. There will be a documentary about the Philadelphia site of Rudy Giuliani’s infamous election fraud press conference. Here is Tom Grater at Deadline: Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the innocuous small business in Pennsylvania that shot...

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Episode 51: “The Politics of Tinky Winky”

January 27, 2023 By John Fea

He was Florida’s professor of the year in 2006. Today his courses would be illegal.

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January 27, 2023 By John Fea

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