All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories
By Joe Lex
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Hundreds of brief biographies of permanent residents of Laurel Hill East in Philadelphia and Laurel Hill West in Bala Cywnyd, Pennsylvania. Often educational, always entertaining.
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OPTIONAL COUNTERFACTUAL: USA without Slavery & Immigration
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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The 1851 Christiana Riots and Laurel Hill
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Aug 06, 2026 |
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Robert Ralston Stewart and His Broken Urn
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Stephen Duncan: Owning 2200 Human Beings
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Germany, Slavery, and John Bohlen
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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Slavery in Colonial Philadelphia
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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Slavery and Laurel Hill
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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Seo Jae-Pil, aka Philip Jaisohn, MD: The Room Where It Happened
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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LTG John C Pemberton: The Loss of Vicksburg
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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MG George Gordon Meade: The Man Who Saved the Union
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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July 4, 1863
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Jeff Lee Johnson: Never "Just a Session Man"
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Winston Samuels: Israelites
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Rudolph Hennig: There's Always Room for Cello
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Three More Musicians from Laurel Hill West
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Rev William Smith: Penn's Forgotten Founder
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Hilery Baker: Philadelphia's First "Officer Down"
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Alexander Murray: A Forgotten Commodore
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Thomas Godfrey: A New Way to See the Horizon
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Invitation to an Exhumation
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Mobile Corpses from the 18th Century
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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George Gerbner: The Man Who Counted Fear
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May 15, 2026 |
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Take Me to the River: A Virtual Tour
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May 14, 2026 |
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The Drew / Barrymore Clan at Mount Vernon: Laurel Hill's Next-door Neighbors by Thomas Keels
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May 05, 2026 |
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BARMOUTH to PENCOYD
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May 04, 2026 |
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PENCOYD to BARMOUTH
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May 04, 2026 |
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The Potter - Vanuxem Clan
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May 04, 2026 |
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Charles & William Kindred: Go West, Young Men
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May 03, 2026 |
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Francis Sully Darley: The Best Organist in the City
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May 02, 2026 |
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A Few Loose Ends: Cleaning Out Some Old Files
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May 01, 2026 |
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Samuel Perkins and the City Hall Cats
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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John Christian Bullitt: Philadelphia and the Bullitt Bill
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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John McArthur, Jr.: Nude Defending a Staircase
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Matthias Baldwin: Taking Pleasure in Perfection
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Re-introduction to City Hall Statues, This Time Outside
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Four Statues Outside City Hall: Baldwin, Bullitt, McArthur, Perkins
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Sophie Hutchinson Drinker: Smashing the Patriarchy with Music
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Clare Wofford: Emerging from the Shadow of Harris
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Florence Cowanova: Teaching Dance and Elegance
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Tillie May Forney: Getting the Scoop from the Woman’s Perspective
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Emily Elizabeth Holman: Philadelphia's Leading Woman Architect
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Women's History Month 2026
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Walter R. Livingston, Jr.: Building with a Black Esthetic
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Mpozi Tolbert: Mpozitivity in Naptown
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Julia Komai: Freedom for Liberia
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Rev. Leonard Smalls: A Parish of Prisoners
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Frances "Mom" Williams: "Get Off Your Rocker and Vote!"
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Black History 2026
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Mary S. Costanza: Finding a Glimmer of Light in the Darkness
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Samuel Patch Frankenfield: Laying Out the Dead
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Dr. Thomas Hewson Bache: Cofounder of Children's Hospital
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Daniel Pabst: Philadelphia's Top Cabinet Maker
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Henry Hagert: Prosecuting Catto's Accused Killer
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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Martha Coston: She Had a Certain Flare (encore episode from 2020)
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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Happy 200th Birthday to Five Laurel Hill Residents
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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James "Jimmy" Bland: From Minstrelsy to Mummery
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Frank Dumont: "Gentlemen Be Seated" - Standardizing Minstrelsy
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Carncross & Dixey: Two Fathers of Modern Minstrelsy
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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A Brief History of Performance
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Mummers, Minstrels, and Laurel Hill
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Benjamin Richards: Merchant, Mayor and Cemetery Cheerleader
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Nathan Dunn and His 10,000 Chinese Things
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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John Jay Smith: A Founder's Non-Cemetery Life
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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The First 20 Years of Laurel Hill
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Some Laurel Hill Founders: The First 20 Years
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Lon Jourdet: The Face of Early Quaker Basket Ball
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Basket Ball and Laurel Hill
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Hugh Craig, Jr.: The Glue That Held It All Together
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Joseph Lapsley Wilson: The Trooper as Horticulturalist
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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A. Loudon Snowden: The Man Who Did Everything
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Fairman Rogers: Horseman Extraordinaire
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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1st City Troop: The First 150 Years
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Happy 250th to the First City Troop
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Hell Hath No Fury
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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The Viper and the Vampire
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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John Hobbs: Victim of an Obsession
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Wives Who Kill, Edwardian Edition
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Mariticide for Beginners
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Raymond Pace Alexander & The Arsenic Murders
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Victor "Babe" Andreoli: Kill and Be Killed
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Willie Lanzetta & His Infamous Brethren
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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"Little Petey" Bisciotti & The Flag Day Massacre
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Evolution of Philadelphia Crime
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Thugs & Gangsters of Laurel Hill
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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John Henry Fow: Foghorn for the Talk, Ducky for the Walk
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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LTC Edgar Loftus: Facing Down a Nazi Ace
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Jacques Louis Francine: "I Bombed Japan"
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Holger "Hold Your Horses" Hoiriis: Fighting Nazis in the Catskills
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Philadelphia Fliers: Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Hobey Baker, Benjamin Lee II
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Lincoln's Air Force: Defying Gravity in the 19th Century
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Look! Up in the Sky! Laurel Hill Pilots (part 1)
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Sara Oberholtzer: Philadelphia Thrift
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Antoinette Westphal: Drexel Forever!
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Joseph Wharton: The Law without Morals Is Useless
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Henry Biddle: Educating the Freedman
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Charles Macalester: Inventing Glengarry & Torresdale
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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Some College Namesakes (part 1)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Robert A. Groff, MD: Cutting Brain
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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BG Henry Naglee: Civil War Hero, Famed Vintner, Scoundrel
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Louis Bossle: Best Rat Catcher in the Land
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Mabel Tinley, alias Lasca Vega, alias Mrs. John Van Ness Roberts
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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MAJ Wakeman Griffin Gribbel: Unsuccessfully Dealing with the Aftermath of War
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Morton McMichael Hoyt: 3rd Time's Not a Charm, Either
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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A Handful of Eccentrics
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Milton C. Work: America's Bridge Master
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Clarence Wiener: Laurel Hill's Baron Munchausen
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Princess Olga Demidoff Stoever: Princess with Attitude
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Marquis d'Esken de Frenoys & Baron Michael von Suttka
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Countess Santa Eulalia, aka Libbie Shindler Stetson
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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The United States and Peerage Titles
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Laurel Hill Nobility (part 1)
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Jack Merriam & Dream Garden
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May 14, 2025 |
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2LT Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill: Gassed!
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May 06, 2025 |
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MAJ Alfred Reginald Allen, MD: The Choices a Man Makes
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May 05, 2025 |
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CPT Alan Wood Lukens: Lost in the Fog of War
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May 04, 2025 |
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1LT Dillwyn Parrish Starr: Groton to The Somme
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May 03, 2025 |
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Philadelphia and the Great War
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May 02, 2025 |
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Killing Fields of France (part 1)
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May 01, 2025 |
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Timothee Adamowski: Idol of the Boston Pops
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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ADM George W. Melville: The Doomed Jeannette Expedition
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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ADM Sylvanus Godon: Hanging "Lucky Nat" Gordon
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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COM David Conner: Amphibious Landing at Vera Cruz
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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COM Isaac Hull and Old Ironsides (script by Russ Dodge)
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Introduction to the 19th Century US Navy
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Four Naval Heroes
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Dorothy Burr Thompson & Pamela Burr: Prides of Bryn Mawr College
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Anna Brown Burr: Prodigious Author
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Henry Armitt Brown: Finest Orator of His Generation
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Frederick Brown: Druggist, Cemetery Co-Founder
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Charles Brockden Brown: America's First Major Novelist (cenotaph)
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Five Generations of Browns at Laurel Hill
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Katherine Rotan Drinker and The Radium Girls (encore)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Charlotte Yhlen & Marie K. Formad: Strangers in a Strange Land
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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William J. Mullen: The Prisoner's Friend and Female Medical College
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Founding the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Women's Medical College: Some Selected Stories
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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John W. Forney: Gadfly, Chameleon, Provocateur
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Jack Jones: Pioneering TV Anchor
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Judge Doris May Harris: Pioneer in Children's Court
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Florence DaVida Johnson-Reid: Reaching a Pinnacle in Black Education
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Lynwood Blount: Bootstraps Judge, Hospital Director
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Black History Month 2025
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Rev. Herb Lusk: Praying Tailback
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Nate Ramsey: #24 for the Eagles
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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M. Roy "Slab" Jackson: Football, Dogs, Horses, and a Rockefeller
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Hut! Hut! Hut! Three Professional Football Players
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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COL Richard Henry Rush: From West Point to Lancers (script by Russ Dodge)
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Henry Charles Lea: He Expected the Spanish Inquisition
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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John Roh: Death by Inferno
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Laura Matilda Towne: Teaching the Least Fortunate
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Jan 04, 2025 |