Posts tagged ‘stories’
Historical Philadelphia Gone Interactive
Interactive Historial Map of Philadelphia
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has announced creation of an interactive Web site that connects stories to places across time in Philadelphia neighborhoods.
The Web site will focus first on two areas Old Southwark and the Greater Northern Liberties that were always home to immigrants and working class. We have chosen these neighborhoods because both are essential to understanding Philadelphia’s history and its industrial legacy as the “workshop of the world.” Situated north and south of the Center City historic district and home to successive immigrant communities almost three centuries, these areas continue as vibrant multiethnic neighborhoods featuring many sites of interest—historic houses of worship, community art and culture centers, gardens and murals, marketplaces, and ethnic businesses. Characterized by block upon block of low-rise row homes where common laborers, artisans, and skilled industrial workers, usually immigrants or migrants, settled, the boundaries of these neighborhoods were defined by work, home, religion, and ethnicity. What constitutes “the neighborhood” – that basic unit of the Philadelphia experience – is subjective, fluid and dynamic, defined as much by contested turf as by common ground. (more…)
American Reminiscences of the Caribbean: 1937-1948
We welcome your advice/assistance with regards inviting American contributions to our latest research. We are currently seeking American contributions to add to reminiscences of the Caribbean 1937-1948. The initial objectives for the material we are gathering are a book and online resource for schools and colleges. We have researched archive sources to provide us with a strong understanding of this history.
We welcome any advice or assistance in helping us to contact US veterans who served in the Caribbean, such as the ‘Dixie Division’ and the African American 99th anti-aircraft Artillery. Contributions to date have come from all perspectives – servicemen, wartime civilians (Aruba, Barbados, Curacao, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad) , U-Boat Officers, merchant sailors….
Our search for reminiscences is all about providing Educators and Learners with as broad and diverse a perspective as possible: We want to gain an impression of the war at sea, we are also gathering memories of the West Indies as bases of operations; what impressions their civilian populations made; how the islands provided for torpedoed merchant seamen; memories of shore-leave…
We look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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