Philadelphia Bibliography

Adams, Carolyn Teich. Philadelphia: Neighborhoods, Division, and Conflict in a Postindustrial City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.

Adams, Carolyn Teich. Restructuring the Philadelphia Region Metropolitan Divisions and Inequality. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008.

Aden, Roger C. Upon the Ruins of Liberty: Slavery, the President’s House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015.

Alexander, John K. Render Them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760-1800. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

Alsop, Gulielma Fell. History of the Women’s Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1850-1950. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1950.

Anderson, Elijah. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, 1999.

Anderson, John. Art Held Hostage: The Story of the Barnes Collection. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.

Archer, Gleason Leonard. History of Radio to 1926, 1938.
Ardoin, John. The Philadelphia Orchestra: A Century of Music. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.
Arnold, Stanley Keith. Building the Beloved Community: Philadelphia’s Interracial Civil Rights Organizations and Race Relations, 1930-1970, 2014.
Arthur, Ruth L, Lois Fernandez, Rosalind L Early, and Ramond Johnson. Odunde: African-American Festival. [Philadelphia, PA.]: [publisher not identified], 1980.
Austin, Erastus Long, and Odell Hauser. The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition: A Record Based on Official Data and Departmental Reports. Philadelphia, Pa.: Current Publications, 1929.
Auyang, Grace S. H. Chao. “Structural and Processual Change in Philadelphia’s Chinatown and among Suburban Chinese.” Temple University, 1978.
Ayres, William S., Ann Barton Brown, and Brandywine River Museum. A Poor Sort of Heaven, a Good Sort of Earth: The Rose Valley Arts and Crafts Experiment : An Exhibition, January Twenty Second to March Twentieth, Nineteen Hundred Eighty Three. Chadds Ford, Pa.: Brandywine River Museum, 1983.
Bacon, Margaret Hope. Rebellion at Christiana. New York: Crown Publishers, 1975.
Bacon, Margaret Hope. But One Race the Life of Robert Purvis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.
Baer, Friederike. The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, Patriotism, and Citizenship in Philadelphia’s German Community, 1790 to 1830. New York: New York University Press, 2008.
Baltzell, E. Digby. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership. New York: Free Press, 1979.
Barnes, Andrew Wallace. History of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Banks and Banking Interests. Philadelphia: Cornelius Baker, 1911.
Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. New York: Viking, 2004.
Bauman, John F. Public Housing, Race, and Renewal: Urban Planning in Philadelphia, 1920-1974. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.
Bell, Robert R. The Philadelphia Lawyer: A History, 1735-1945. Selinsgrove; London: Susquehanna University Press ; Associated University Presses, 1992.
Benjamin, Philip S. The Philadelphia Quakers in the Industrial Age, 1865-1920. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976.
Berger, Martin A., and Thomas Eakins. Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2000.
Berson, Lenora E. Case Study of a Riot: The Philadelphia Story. New York, N.Y.: Institute of Human Relations Press, American Jewish Committee, 1966.
Biddle, Daniel R, and Murray Dubin. Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010.
Birch, William Russell, S. Robert Teitelman, and W. Birch & Son. Birch’s Views of Philadelphia: A Reduced Facsimile of The City of Philadelphia– as It Appeared in the Year 1800 : With Photographs of the Sites in 1960 & 2000 and Commentaries. [Philadelphia]; [Wappingers’ Falls, N.Y.]: Free Library of Philadelphia ; Antique Collectors’ Club, 2000.
Bissinger, H. G. A Prayer for the City. New York: Random House, 1997.
Bjelopera, Jerome P. City of Clerks Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Blair, William Alan, and William Pencak. Making and Remaking Pennsylvania’s Civil War. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.
Blumberg, Leonard U, Thomas E Shipley, and Irving W Shandler. Skid Row and Its Alternatives; Research and Recommendations from Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1973.
Bochanski, Philip G. Our Faith-Filled Heritage: The Church of Philadelphia Bicentennial as a Diocese 1808-2008. Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007.
Boonin, Harry D. The Jewish Quarter of Philadelphia: A History and Guide, 1881-1930. Philadelphia: Jewish Walking Tours of Philadelphia, 1999.
Boorse, J. W. Philadelphia in Motion: A Nostalgic View of How Philadelphians Traveled, 1902-1940. Bryn Mawr, Pa.: Bryn Mawr Press, 1976.
Boris, Alan. Philadelphia Radio, 2011.
Bosworth, Francis. The Story of Friends’ Neighborhood Guild. Philadelphia: Friends’ Neighborhood Guild, 1950.
Boyette, Michael, and Randi Boyette. Let It Burn: MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation That Changed a City. San Diego: Author Coach, 1989.
Brandt, Ellen B. Susanna Haswell Rowson, America’s First Best-Selling Novelist. Chicago: Serbra Press, 1975.
Branson, Susan. These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America, 1625-1742. New York: Knopf, 1955.
Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776. New York: Knopf, 1955.
Bridenbaugh, Carl, and Jessica Bridenbaugh. Rebels and Gentleman: Philadelphia in the Age of Franklin. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.
Brigham, David R. Public Culture in the Early Republic: Peale’s Museum and Its Audience. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Brotherhead, William. Forty Years among the Old Booksellers of Philadelphia, with Bibliographical Remarks. Philadelphia: A. P. Brotherhead, 1891.
Brown, Peter Hendee. America’s Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
Buschel, Bruce. Walking Broad: Looking for the Heart of Brotherly Love. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Callahan, Jake. American Arsenal: Philadelphia and the Second World War. Scouting Video Productions, 2009.
Canton, David A. Raymond Pace Alexander a New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
Carner, Lucy Perkins. The Settlement Way in Philadelphia: The Settlement Movement in Philadelphia : A Brief History from Its Beginnings in the Nineteenth Century to the Founding of the Delaware Valley Settlement Alliance in 1963. Philadelphia: Delaware Valley Settlement Alliance, 1964.
Carter, Alice A. The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love. New York: H.N. Abrams, 2000.
Casey, Robert P. Performance Audit of Commonwealth Spending For the Kvaerner-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Project Through January 14, 2000. Harrisburg, PA, 2000.
Cervetti, Nancy. S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914: Philadelphia’s Literary Physician. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.
Chandler, Charles Lyon, M. V. Brewington, and Edgar Preston Richardson. Philadelphia, Port of History, 1609-1837. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Maritime Museum, 1976.
Cheape, Charles W. Moving the Masses: Urban Public Transit in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, 1880-1912. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Cheung, Shu Pui, Deborah Wei, Debora G Kodish, Ming Chau, and Philadelphia Folklore Project. Walking on solid ground. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Folklore Project, 2004.
Clark, Dennis. The Irish in Philadelphia: Ten Generations of Urban Experience. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1973.
Clement, Priscilla Ferguson. Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City: Philadelphia, 1800-1854. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985.
Clendenin, Malcolm. Preserve Philadelphia!, Thematic Context Statement: Building Industrial Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Preservation Alliance, 2009.
Cole, Peter. Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Congdon, Clement Hillman, and Philadelphia Master Builders’ Exchange. History of the Master Builders’ Exchange of the City of Philadelphia from Its Organization in the Year 1886 to 1893. Philadelphia: Sunshine Pub. Co., 1893.
Conn, Steven. Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Conn, Steven. Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Connelly, James F. The History of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: The Archdiocese, 1976.
Contosta, David R. Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 1850-1990. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992.
Contosta, David R, and Carol Franklin. Metropolitan Paradise: The Struggle for Nature in the City : Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley, 1620-2020. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2010.
Coode, Thomas H., and John F. Bauman. People, Poverty, and Politics: Pennsylvanians during the Great Depression. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1981.
Cooperman, Emily T., Lea Carson Sherk, and William Russell Birch. William Birch: Picturing the American Scene. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Cotter, John L., Daniel G. Roberts, and Michael Parrington. The Buried Past: An Archaeological History of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
Countryman, Matthew. Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Crosby, Alfred W. America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Croskey, John Welsh. History of Blockley; a History of the Philadelphia General Hospital from Its Inception, 1731-1928,. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, 1929.
Crumlish, Joseph D. A City Finds Itself: The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter Movement. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1959.
Cutler, William W., and Howard Gillette. The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800-1975. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.
D’Antonio, Patricia. Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2006.
Davies, Edward J. The Anthracite Aristocracy: Leadership and Social Change in the Hard Coal Regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1800-1930. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985.
Davis, Allen Freeman. Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Davis, Susan G. Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
Davis, Allen Freeman, Mark H. Haller, Temple University Committee for Urban Studies, and Temple University Center for the Study of Federalism, eds. The Peoples of Philadelphia; a History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1973.
Dawson, Andrew. Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class, and Revolution, 1830-1890. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
Delmont, Matthew F. The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock “n” Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Charles H Elam, and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists, [Exhibition. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1967.
Diehl, Lorraine B., and Hardart, Marianne. The Automat. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2002.
Dilworth, Richardson, ed. Social Capital in the City: Community and Civic Life in Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006.
Dorst, John Darwin. The Written Suburb: An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
Dorwart, Jeffery M. Invasion and Insurrection: Security, Defense, and War in the Delaware Valley, 1621-1815. Newark [Del.]: University of Delaware Press, 2008.
Dorwart, Jeffery M., and John W. Jackson. Fort Mifflin of Philadelphia: An Illustrated History. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Downs, Jim. Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2020.
Dorwart, Jeffery M., and Jean K. Wolf. The Philadelphia Navy Yard: From the Birth of the U.S. Navy to the Nuclear Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Philadelphia Negro a Social Study.
Dubin, Murray. South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories, and the Melrose Diner. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1996.
Dyer, S. Progress Plaza Leon Sullivan, Zion Investment Associates, and Black Power in a Philadelphia Shopping Center. Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Dyson, Omari L. Black Panther Party and Transformative Pedagogy: Place-Based Education in Philadelphia, 2013.
Eckhardt, Joseph P. The King of the Movies: Film Pioneer Siegmund Lubin. Madison; London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses, 1997.
Edmunds, Allan L. Three Decades of American Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2004.
Ershkowitz, Herbert. John Wanamaker: Philadelphia Merchant. Conshohocken, Pa.: Combined Pub., 1999.
Faris, John T. Old Gardens in and about Philadelphia and Those Who Made Them. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1932.
Farley, James J. Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia’s Frankford Arsenal, 1816-1870. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
Farr, Gail E., Brett F. Bostwick, and Merville Willis. Shipbuilding at Cramp & Sons: A History and Guide to Collections of the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company (1830-1927) and the Cramp Shipbuilding Company (1941-46) of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Maritime Museum, 1991.
Faulkner, Carol. Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Feldberg, Michael. The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Study of Ethnic Conflict. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975.
Fenichel, Carol Hansen, Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez, and Cynthia Stodola Pomerleau. In Her Own Words: Oral Histories of Women Physicians. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
Finger, Simon. The Contagious City: The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012
Fogleman, Aaron Spencer. Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
Folk, Thomas. The Pennsylvania Impressionists. Madison; London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses, 1997.
Foster, Kathleen A., and Mark S. Tucker. An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2012.
Fowler, John A. History of Insurance in Philadelphia for Two Centuries (1683-1882). Philadelphia: Review Pub. and Print. Co., 1888.
Franklin, V. P. The Education of Black Philadelphia: The Social and Educational History of a Minority Community, 1900-1950. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.
Friedman, Murray. Jewish Life in Philadelphia, 1830-1940. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
Frierson, Malcolm. Freedom in Laughter: Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, and the Civil Rights Movement. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020.
Gallery, John Andrew. The Planning of Center City Philadelphia: From William Penn to the Present. Philadelphia, Pa.: Center for Architecture, Inc., 2007.
Gallman, J. Matthew. Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia during the Civil War. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Gallman, J. Matthew. Receiving Erin’s Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Gallman, J. Matthew. America’s Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Gans, Herbert J. The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community. New York: Pantheon Books, 1967.
Gardner, Joel R., and Tasty Baking Company. Seventy-Five Years of Good Taste: A History of the Tasty Baking Company, 1914-1989. Philadelphia: [The Company], 1990.
George, Carol V. R. Segregated Sabbaths; Richard Allen and the Emergence of Independent Black Churches 1760-1840. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
Gibbs, Jenna M. Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850, 2014.
Giesberg, Judith Ann. Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women’s Politics in Transition. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000.
Giesberg, Judith Ann. Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Golab, Caroline. Immigrant Destinations. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977.
Goldenberg, David. Philadelphia All the Time: Sounds of the Quaker City, 1896 to 1947. Rydal, Pa.: Spinning Disc Productions, 1992.
Goode, Judith, and Jo Anne Schneider. Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia: Immigrants in a Divided City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
Gross, Kali N. Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006.
Gross, Linda P., and Theresa R. Snyder. Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2005.
Hallock, Thomas, Nancy E Hoffmann, and Joel T Fry. William Bartram, the Search for Nature’s Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2010.
Heinrich, Thomas R. Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Heller, Gregory L. Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Hensel, W. U. The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851; An Historical Sketch. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
Hepp, John Henry. The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Hershberg, Theodore, and Philadelphia Social History Project. Philadelphia: Work, Space, Family, and Group Experience in the Nineteenth Century : Essays toward an Interdisciplinary History of the City. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Highsmith, Carol M, and James L Holton. Reading Terminal and Market: Philadelphia’s Historic Gateway and Grand Convention Center. Washington, DC: Chelsea Pub., 1994.
Hilty, James W., and Matthew M. Hanson. Temple University 125 Years of Service to Philadelphia, the Nation, and the World. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010.
Holzman, Laura. “Re-Placing the City Icon: Shaping Philadelphia’s Image for the 21st Century.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, 2012.
Hoppes, Ronald R. The Most Important Clock in America: The David Rittenhouse Astronomical Musical Clock at Drexel University. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009.
Horton, James Oliver, and Lois E. Horton. In Hope of Liberty Culture, Community, and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Hunter, Marcus Anthony. Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hutchins, Catherine E. Shaping a National Culture: The Philadelphia Experience, 1750-1800. Winterthur, Del.: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1994.
Jackson, Joseph. Market Street, Philadelphia; the Most Historic Highway in America, Its Merchants and Its Story,. Philadelphia: Joseph Jackson, 1918
Jackson, Joseph. Encyclopedia of Philadelphia,. Harrisburg: National Historical Association, 1931.
Jackson, John W. The Pennsylvania Navy, 1775-1781; the Defense of the Delaware. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1974.
Jackson, John A. American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock “n” Roll Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Jackson, John A. A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Joyce, John St. George. Story of Philadelphia, 1919.
Juliani, Richard N. The Social Organization of Immigration: The Italians in Philadelphia. New York: Arno Press, 1980.
Juliani, Richard N. Building Little Italy: Philadelphia’s Italians before Mass Migration. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
Kafer, Peter. Charles Brockden Brown’s Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Kanigel, Robert. The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency. New York: Viking, 1997.
Katz, Michael B., and Thomas J. Sugrue, eds. W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and Its Legacy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Keels, Thomas H. Forgotten Philadelphia: Lost Architecture of the Quaker City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.
King, Joan. Sarah M. Peale: America’s First Woman Artist. Brookline Village, MA: Branden Pub. Co., 1987.
Klaczynska, Barbara. “Working Women in Philadelphia, 1900–1930.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Temple University, 1975.
Knowles, Scott Gabriel, and Project Muse. Imagining Philadelphia Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
Koss, Joan Dee. “Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia: Migration and Accommodation.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1977.
Kuklick, Bruce. To Everything a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Kyriakodis, Harry G. Philadelphia’s Lost Waterfront. Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2011.
Labaree, David F. The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market and the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838-1939. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Lane, Roger. Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.
Lane, Roger. Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Lane, Roger. William Dorsey’s Philadelphia and Ours on the Past and Future of the Black City in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., and Anne A. Verplanck. Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Laurie, Bruce. Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980.
Laverty, Bruce, Michael J. Lewis, Michelle Taillon Taylor, and Girard College. Monument to Philanthropy: The Design and Building of Girard College, 1832-1848. Philadelphia: Girard College, 1998.
Lee, Jae-Hyup. Dynamics of Ethnic Identity: Three Asian American Communities in Philadelphia. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.
Levenstein, Lisa. A Movement without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Levine, Susan. Labor’s True Woman: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.
Licht, Walter. Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Lindstrom, Diane. Economic Development in the Philadelphia Region, 1810-1850. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
Linebaugh, Peter, and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.
Luconi, Stefano. From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Lukacs, John. Philadelphia, Patricians & Philistines, 1900-1950. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1981.
Lyons, Margaret J. Broad Street Philadelphia in Black & White. Wyncote, Pa.: Gaslight Press, 1999.
Lyons, Paul. The People of This Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Marietta, Jack D, and G. S Rowe. Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Martinez, Katharine, Page Talbott, and Elizabeth Johns. Philadelphia’s Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family Legacy. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2000.
Mauger, Edward Arthur, and Bob Skiba. Lost Philadelphia. London, U.K.: Pavilion Books, 2013.
McBride, David. Integrating the City of Medicine: Blacks in Philadelphia Health Care, 1910-1965. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
McCadden, Joseph. Education in Pennsylvania, 1801-1835, and Its Debt to Roberts Vaux. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
McCaffery, Peter. When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia: The Emergence of the Republican Machine, 1867-1933. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.
McCarthy, Michael P. Typhoid and the Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1987.
McClelland, James, and Lynn H Miller. City in a Park: A History of Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park System, 2016.
McKee, Guian A. The Problem of Jobs Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
McLarnon, John Morrison. Ruling Suburbia: John J. McClure and the Republican Machine in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Newark; London: University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, 2003.
Medsger, Betty. The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI, 2014.
Melton, H. Keith.  Spy Sites of Philadelphia: A Guide to the Region’s Secret. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2021.
Meranze, Michael. Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Meyers, Mary Ann. Art, Education, & African-American Culture: Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2004.
Meyers, Amy R. W, and Lisa L Ford. Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
Milano, Kenneth W. The History of Penn Treaty Park. Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2009.
Milano, Kenneth W. The Philadelphia Nativist Riots: Irish Kensington Erupts. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2013.
Miller, Marla R. Betsy Ross and the Making of America. New York: Henry Holt, 2010.
Miller, Lillian B, and Carol Eaton Hevner. In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860. Washington, D.C.; Seattle: National Portrait Gallery ; University of Washington Press, 1992.
Miller, Fredric, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen Freeman Davis. Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.
Miller, Fredric, Morris J Vogel, and Allen Freeman Davis. Philadelphia Stories: A Photographic History, 1920-1960. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.

Miller, Lynn H. Salut! : France meets Philadelphia: the French Presence in Philadelphia’s History, Culture, and Art. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2021.

Milroy, Elizabeth. The Grid and the River: Philadelphia’s Green Places, 1682-1876, 2016.
Mires, Charlene. Independence Hall in American Memory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Moss, Roger W. Philadelphia Victorian: The Building of the Athenæum. Philadelphia: Athenæum of Philadelphia, 1998.
Moss, Roger W., and Tom Crane. Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Nash, Gary B. The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.
Nash, Gary B. Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720-1840. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Nash, Gary B. First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Nash, Gary B., ed. The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Nash, Gary B. The Liberty Bell. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010.
Neel, Joanne Loewe. Miss Irwin’s of Philadelphia; a History of The Agnes Irwin School. Wynnewood, Pa.: Livingston Pub. Co., 1969.
Nelson, Daniel. Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1980.
Nelson, Daniel. A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management since Taylor. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992.
Nelson, Dana D. National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
Newman, Andrew. On Records Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
Newman, Paul Douglas. Fries’s Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Newman, Simon P. Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
Newman, Richard S. The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Newman, Richard S. Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers. New York: New York University Press, 2008.
Newman, Richard S., and James Mueller. Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
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