Literacy as Liberation
by Kerry Roeder, Executive Director We’re often met with confusion and curiosity when people discover that a 300 year old burial ground is operating their local school library or assisting
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History
Youth Internship
This summer our staff had the pleasure of working alongside 7 fabulous youth interns. These students were all from the Fairhill community and ranged in ages from 12-16. They met
Highlighting Harriet Forten Purvis
by Kate McHale, Quaker Voluntary Service Fellow Harriet Forten Purvis, an abolitionist and women’s rights activist, is one of the many prominent figures in Philadelphia’s history buried in the Historic
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The Healing Walls
by Carolyn Singleton, History Educator On Germantown Avenue, within a few blocks of Historic Fair Hill, are two murals known as the “Healing Walls”. One is a memorial to the
Lucretia Mott’s Birthday is Wednesday, January 3
Reposted from “A Friendly Letter”, a blog by Chuck Fager. Read more from Chuck Fager here: www.afriendlyletter.com For more helpful reading on Lucretia Mott, see the bottom of this post
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Lecture on Lucretia Mott scheduled for May 15 at 6:30 at HFH Burial Ground
Join Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner, Nancy A Hewitt, Beverly Palmer, editors of the new book, “Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons” for a lecture and discussion. We will
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Lenni Lenape Food in the Colonial Era
On Thanksgiving, we think about the help that the Wampanoag tribe of present-day Massachusetts offered to the recently arrived English settlers in 1621. The harvest that the group ate that year
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Can historians find the original Declaration of Women’s Rights?
In 1848, for the first time in the United States, women organized a convention to bring attention to their dramatically unequal rights under the law. Two of the abolitionists and
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The Battle of Germantown comes alive
On October 4, 1777, George Washington lead American soldiers against the British in the Battle of Germantown. The British had recently taken Philadelphia. Washington had learned that the British General,
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