Self Study

Urban Legend: The Life and Legacy of C. Emlen Urban

Gregory J. Scott, FAIA, co-founder of RLPS architectural firm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been researching and teaching the community about C. Emlen Urban’s life and architectural legacy for over 20 years. Scott is proud to announce the long-awaited release of his first book profiling Lancaster’s most prolific architect. The 200+ page book is titled Urban …

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12 Dec

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

THE ATHENÆUM OF PHILADELPHIA

219 S. 6th Street Philadelphia, PA, PA 19106-3794 United States

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Read With Us: Filthy Rich Politicians by Matt K Lewis

In Filthy Rich Politicians, Lewis embarks on an investigative deep dive into the ridiculous state of modern American democracy—a system where the rich get elected and the elected get rich. One of the brightest conservative writers of his generation, Lewis doesn’t just complain: he articulates how Americans can achieve accountability from their elected leaders through radically …

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19 Dec

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

THE ATHENÆUM OF PHILADELPHIA

219 S. 6th Street Philadelphia, PA, PA 19106-3794 United States

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Everyday Resistance: Black Reconstructions of America Throughout the Nineteenth Century

Members: $125 | Non-members: $150 Virtual Event This three-session virtual seminar will dive into complexities of education, public transportation, and African American familial and community dynamics in the nineteenth century as a way to illuminate the central arenas and vast array of strategies that nineteenth-century African Americans used in an effort to build a country …

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10 Jan

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1300 Locust St., 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

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Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite

January 18, 2024 7:00 p.m. ET Virtual Event | Free For many Spanish Americans in the early nineteenth century, Philadelphia was Filadelfia, a symbol of republican government for the Americas and the most important Spanish-language print center in the early United States. In Letters from Filadelfia, Rodrigo Lazo opens a window into Spanish-language writing produced …

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18 Jan

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1300 Locust St., 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

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Everyday Resistance: Black Reconstructions of America Throughout the Nineteenth Century

Members: $125 | Non-members: $150 Virtual Event This three-session virtual seminar will dive into complexities of education, public transportation, and African American familial and community dynamics in the nineteenth century as a way to illuminate the central arenas and vast array of strategies that nineteenth-century African Americans used in an effort to build a country …

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24 Jan

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1300 Locust St., 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

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Love Me, Love Me Not: Emotion and Identity in 19th-Century Valentines

featuring Dr. Alice Crossley Wednesday, February 7 1:30 PM ET Virtual Event | Free Nineteenth-century valentines are typically recognized as pretty tokens of love and affection, prized for their intricate, decorative designs. The comic variant of the valentine, however, communicated very different sentiments indeed. Gaining popularity by the mid-1800s, and notable for their surprisingly malicious …

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07 Feb

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1300 Locust St., 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

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Everyday Resistance: Black Reconstructions of America Throughout the Nineteenth Century

Members: $125 | Non-members: $150 Virtual Event This three-session virtual seminar will dive into complexities of education, public transportation, and African American familial and community dynamics in the nineteenth century as a way to illuminate the central arenas and vast array of strategies that nineteenth-century African Americans used in an effort to build a country …

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07 Feb

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1300 Locust St., 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

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Broken Black Bodies: African American Women, Intimate Violence, and the Embodied Legibility of Care in the (Post)-Slavery Archive

February 15, 2023 7:00 p.m. ET Virtual Event | Free The scholarship on African Americans and violence in the post Civil war South centers almost exclusively on the lynching of Black men. This book length project expands the terrain of the post war experience by focusing on intimate partner violence among African Americans. By using …

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15 Feb

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1300 Locust St., 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

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What’s Cooking at the Library Company: Discovering Historic Recipes

Tuesday, February 20, 2024 | 6:00 PM In-Person & Members-Only Nestled among our stacks of rare books and manuscripts lie a genre of printed material that may surprise even veteran researchers – cookbooks! From “Cheesecake the Common Way,” to “Fish House Punch,” and “Mrs. Rorer’s Chicken Souffle” we have found dozens of historic recipes in …

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20 Feb

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1300 Locust St., 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

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Jubilee’s Experiment: British Emancipation in the Caribbean and Black History in America

A Black History Month Lecture Featuring Dr. Dexter Gabriel Thursday, February 22 6:00 PM ET Virtual Event | Free In the early United States, the emancipated British Caribbean colonies often entered into debates over abolition in America. This was a public discourse, created by Black and white abolitionists, but African Americans more generally, as both …

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22 Feb

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1300 Locust St., 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

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More than the Money: Uncovering the Vibrant Legacy of Dr. James Rush

Thursday, March 7, 2024 | 11:00 am Virtual & Members-Only Entombed within the entryway of the Library Company lies one of the institution’s most important benefactors, Dr. James Rush, son of acclaimed founding father Dr. Benjamin Rush. At the wish of his late wife, Phoebe Ann Ridgway Rush, James Rush bequeathed $1,000,000 to the Library …

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07 Mar

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1300 Locust St., 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

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Grand Old Women: How Abolitionists and Feminists Transformed Aging in America

A Talk by Dr. Corinne Field Thursday, March 14 | 6:00 PM ET Virtual Event | Free Grand Old Women provides a collective biography of women who redefined aging in the 19th-century United States. Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Frances Harper were central advocates for abolition and women’s …

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14 Mar

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1300 Locust St., 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

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