Philly People, Now Deceased: A History Podcast Michiko and Leonard

After 1.5 YEARS...(thank you pandemic) we have new content!  Join Michiko and guest Co-Host Philly Historian Michael Idriss as we dive into the life of the incredible, indomintabile, brilliant Hetty Reckless. 


NOTE: And also sign this petition sign this petition created by students at NEHS 
 to have Black Women's names added to the Pennsylvania Female Anti-Slavery Society plaque. 

https://www.change.org/p/tom-wolf-help-to-add-a-black-woman-s-name-to-the-philadelphia-female-antislavery-society-plaque?signed=true


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This episode is in honor of all the medical workers and nurses taking care of us right now. We look at the beautiful life of compassion of Mother Mary Gonzaga Grace, our very own Florence Nightingale of Philly,  and the massive Mower and Satterlee Hospitals.  Check out our visuals here. 
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Today we’re talking about a place that is gone gone gone, not a person.  Join history Professor Kristen O-Brassill-Kulfan, expert on poverty and prisons in the early American republic, and Candace McKinley, Lead Organizer for the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, as we discuss the prison you didn’t know existed - Arch Street Prison, Vagrancy, and the Cholera Epidemic of 1832. 



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Join us as we discuss Philadelphian Samuel Morton who set out to prove racial inferiority based on skull sizes.  Guest Co-Host Nathaniel Miller joins Michiko as we look at Morton's skull measuring methods, a little bit about the potential origins of black-face mummers, and a smattering of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Dumas, and repatriation of the remains of enslaved people.

References:  

Take Action: Change.org petition https://www.change.org/p/president-of-university-of-penn-and-board-of-trustees-university-of-penn-to-return-enslaved-crania 
Samuel Morton  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_George_Morton
Crania Americana https://archive.org/details/Craniaamericana00Mort/page/261/mode/2up
Catalogue of human crania in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Penn Museum Morton Cranial Collection https://www.penn.museum/sites/morton/index.php
Racism in Jacksonian America + reference to the Fancy Balls Lapsansky, Emma Jones. “‘Since They Got Those Separate Churches’: Afro-Americans and Racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia.” American Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, 1980, pp. 54–78. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2712496. Accessed 2 Mar. 2020.
Edward Clay’s Racist Political Cartoons about Rich Black Philadelphians http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/gallclayf.html
DNA can’t tell your race https://www.popsci.com/story/science/dna-tests-myth-ancestry-race/

Dr. Sarah Tishkoff https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/10/05/sarah-tishkoff-penn-race-genetics/
Thomas Jefferson and his Slave Profit Calculations https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/
The Mismeasure of Man https://www.amazon.com/Mismeasure-Man-Revised-Expanded/dp/0393314251/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+mismeasure+of+man&qid=1583186691&s=books&sr=1-1
 Superior: the Return of Race Science https://www.amazon.com/Superior-Return-Science-Angela-Saini/dp/0807076910
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Thanks for joining episode 1, season 2 where we visit Tacony, and talk about the biggest Philly corporation you’ve never heard of, Solar Energy, and Philly’s first planned interracial community.  Welcome!



References: 
Northeast Philadelphia; a Brief History, Dr. Harry Silcox and Frank HollingsworthWorkshopoftheworld. "Disston & Sons, Keystone Saw Works." Workshopoftheworld, n.d., https://www.workshopoftheworld.com/tacony/disston.html.Silcox, Harry C. “Henry Disston's Model Industrial Community: Nineteenth-Century Paternalism in Tacony, Philadelphia.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 114, no. 4, 1990, pp. 483–515. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20092536.Biography. "Roosevelt Barlow Biography - Black, Department, Fire, and Firefighters - JRank Articles." Biography, n.d., https://biography.jrank.org/pages/2442/Barlow-Roosevelt.html.Nytimes. "Morris Milgram, 81; Built Interracial Housing - The New York Times." Nytimes, n.d.,https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/26/us/morris-milgram-81-built-interracial-housing.html.Wikipedia page for Taconyhttps://www.inquirer.com/news/racial-covenants-deed-philadelphia-segregation-african-american-history-20191230.htmlSupport the show

In Episode 7 we look at the life of  oilman William Gray Warden, the South Philly Atlantic Refinery he built that has been exploding since 1860, the gas layer under our streets and how one unsung hero prevented Philnobyl. 


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