Found in Philadelphia

Laurie Almond continues her conversation with Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson about Philadelphia research behind Code of the Street, Cosmopolitan Canopy, and Black in White Space.

Elijah Anderson explains how five ethnographic books, including Streetwise and Code of the Street, document Philadelphia’s racialized public life across five decades.

Found in Philadelphia host Lori Aument and Professor Mark Bruin trace how Philadelphia voting changed from party-machine ballots and public intimidation to private voting booths, registration laws, voting machines, and media-driven elections.

Found in Philadelphia examines Election Day in Philadelphia from the Civil War era through about 1900, when Black men regained voting rights and the city’s population doubled during the Gilded Age.

Found in Philadelphia host Lori Allman examines how voting and political protest changed in Philadelphia after the American Revolution, when Pennsylvania broadened voting eligibility for many free men while excluding most residents.

Lori Aument’s Found in Philadelphia examines Election Day in Philadelphia before the American Revolution, when voting took place at a courthouse at Second and High Street, now Market Street.

Lori Allman examines Philadelphia streets from 1865 to 1900, when economic depression, population growth, rowhouse construction, and transit expansion reshaped the city.

Laurie Aument's Found in Philadelphia rebroadcast examines Black Philadelphians' fight to integrate segregated streetcars during and after the Civil War.

Found in Philadelphia host Lori Ament examines how Philadelphia’s streets became part of the Civil War mobilization from 1861 to 1865.

Found in Philadelphia examines how horse-drawn streetcars arrived in Philadelphia between consolidation in 1854 and the Civil War in 1861.

Found in Philadelphia host Lori Almond traces how Philadelphia’s population grew from 388,000 in 1850 to more than half a million before the Civil War, while immigration and poverty intensified neighborhood conflict.

Found in Philadelphia host Lori Almond examines Philadelphia’s streets in the 1830s and 1840s, when the region grew from 170,000 people in 1830 to 388,000 in 1850.

Found in Philadelphia host Gloria Almond maps the densely settled early-1800s city, where about 68,000 residents crowded blocks near the Delaware River and docks.

Found in Philadelphia host Lori Aument traces how Philadelphia streets became contested political space during the American Revolution and early United States.

Found in Philadelphia: Episode No.

Found in Philadelphia’s Episode No.

This episode explores the 1688 Germantown Protest, the first anti-slavery document in America, and its roots in Philadelphia's Quaker community.