Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

Fashioning Philadelphia – The Style of the City, 1720-1940

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The Library Company of Philadelphia presents over 200 years of fashion history in its newest exhibition, which opened July 20. Fashioning Philadelphia – The Style of the City, 1720-1940 tells the largely unheralded story of Philadelphia’s…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

2015 Juneteenth Freedom Symposium with Dr. Danielle Allen

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The Program in African American History (PAAH) welcomed political theorist Dr. Danielle Allen for our annual Juneteenth Freedom Symposium on June 18. PAAH hosts an annual symposium to recognize Juneteenth, one of the oldest known celebrations…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

Mellon Scholars Summer Programs

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In June, the Program in African American History (PAAH) held its second annual Mellon Scholars Internship and Workshop under the direction of Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, PAAH Director, and Krystal Appiah, Curator of African American History.…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

New Collections Uploaded to Our Digital Collections Catalog

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Several collections were recently uploaded to ImPAC, the Library Company’s digital collections catalog. Peter Collinson’s annotated first edition of William Maitland’s 1739 History of London, Frederick Gutekunt’s Scenery on the Pennsylvania…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

My First SDS Conference

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  A few weeks ago, hundreds of disability studies scholars, advocates, and activists gathered for the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, June 10-13, 2015. I was fortunate to be one of the attendees on…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

The Female Physician: A Deviation from 19th-Century Gender Roles?

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This is the tenth anniversary of the Library Company first working with an intern from Haverford College’s Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities. In their summers at the Library Company, each one has helped increase the digital resources…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

Riddle of Independence: Independent but not Free

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Danielle Allen will give the Program in African American History’s 2015 Juneteenth Freedom Symposium talk at the Library Company. While in residence, our Mellon Scholars interns read Dr. Allen’s Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

A Dead Prostitute, a Male Impersonator, and a Medium: Three Sensational Pamphlets

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Our Curator of Printed Books Rachel D’Agostino found these three sensational pamphlets at a recent book fair. Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch Women’s History Fund, they are the sort of lowbrow items our 19th-century predecessors…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

The Union Library Company of Hatboro

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The Union Library Company of Hatboro, Pennsylvania, founded in 1755, is one of the oldest public libraries in America and one of many that imitated the Library Company of Philadelphia in name, mission, and organization. Recently the Board…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

Human Trafficking in Early America Conference

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On Thursday, April 23, the Library Company will host the keynote address for a conference titled "Human Trafficking in Early America," co-sponsored with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Department of History at the University…
Cassandra Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

The Union Library Company of Hatboro

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The Union Library Company of Hatboro, Pennsylvania, founded in 1755, is one of the oldest public libraries in America and one of many that imitated the Library Company of Philadelphia in name, mission, and organization. Recently the…