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A Contingency Plan

Plan-b by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images The denouement upon us This week ends our crypto-experiment in nonprofit fundraising and adminstration. You’ll

Everybody's Got to Eat! Cooking like it's 1918

So far in the #explore1918 series, I've written about how World War I impacted free speech, Eastern European immigrants' cultural pride, literature, and the legality

"Fixing" the Cultural Sector

I'm a millennial. I'm one of those mysterious, fickle, and elusive creatures that the nonprofit world spends hours bemoaning, pandering to, and unsuccessfully wooing

A Call to Arms of Another Kind: 1918, A Banner Year for the Condom

I'm writing about culture for #explore1918 (see my prior entry about Edith Wharton's "propaganda novel"). In honor of Valentine's Day, and in a

Forgotten Works of 1918: Reassessing Edith Wharton's 'The Marne'

My past two entries for #explore1918 have dealt with serious political issues: specifically, censorship and sedition in wartime through the lens of the Philadelphia

Philadelphia Prisoners during WWI: Volunteering Behind Bars

When the United States officially entered World War I in April 1917, free men and women weren't the only ones who wanted to help their country. Unable to enlist

A Declaration of Independence for the Oppressed: The Mid-European Union at Independence Hall

A Remarkably-Timed Celebration Although the Great War would not end for another three weeks, and much of the city was laid low with the deadly Spanish influenza

The Limitations of Free Speech in Wartime: The Philadelphia Tageblatt Trial

September of 1918 was a fraught time in Philadelphia. Day after day, newspaper headlines carried a grim mixture of battle updates from the Great War, seemingly endless

Tarzan of the Apes: A Nation, and a City's, Response to the First Tarzan Film

In honor of today's announcement of the 2018 Oscar nominations, here's some 1918 movie history: One hundred years ago, the still relatively new and uncensored Hollywood

Full Steem Ahead!

Pleased to meet you! Yours truly doing research in Port Penn, Delaware I’m Cynthia Heider, a student in the Public History M.A. program at Temple University in

The Sober Reality of the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic -- Literally

Bars are often where people go to forget about their troubles. This was especially true in 1918 when labor was often manual and technology like the internet was

Hello!

My name is Joy. In August I moved from sunny Sarasota, Florida to Philadelphia in order to pursue my master's in Public History at Temple University. I completed