Beginning a year in the chimpanzee forest. Hello from Kibale National Park, Uganda Who am I? I’m a graduate student from the USA at the beginning of a year of doctoral research on wild chimpanzees. For

Here is a fun Friday post of some close-up photographs of the Wagner's entomology collection with just a little bit of history. The Wagner’s entomological collections were primarily collected and installed

Temple University-Wagner Fellow, Jena Osman, found inspiration in a single specimen of brain coral. See our previous post to learn more about this specimen and other corals in our collection. This specimen

Hello from the staff at the Wagner Free Institute of Science! We [@phillyhistory] are completely new to the blockchain world and still trying to figure things out how everything works. But first, who are

When it comes to the dynamics of Steemit, I’m no expert. But I do have a good sense of the dynamics of a big-city cultural community. In particular, since the late 1970s I’ve focused on the care and feeding

As promised, the semester-long crypto-experiment conducted by graduate courses at Temple University's Center for Public History and Temple's MLA Program has concluded with an allocation of the rewards

Restored and reinstalled in the center of Philadelphia—the city of Brotherly Love—in 1976, Philadelphia’s LOVE sculpture is one of many around the world. (Source) Versions of Robert Indiana’s work are

We’re off and running. Some of the students in Temple's Center for Public History. Source The students of History5151, excited participants in the #explore1918 experiment in Temple University’s Center

An 18th-century leaf-printing project as it relates to counterfeit-resistant currency, discussed here by @voronoi, features the printer’s partner, the go-to Founding Father: Benjamin Franklin. Source:

A History Challenge! Even more than today, there was a lot happening in the world exactly 100 years ago. 1918 was a formidable year for events that resonated across the globe. World War I had countries

History has a curious way of working in cycles - or that’s what appearances would lead us to believe. The year 1968, as we talked about last time, was special in many ways. Today we’ll begin to consider

No question about it: 1968 was no ordinary year, not by a long shot. We’ve known that for a long time. Having been there (the Fall of 1968 coincided with the start of my senior year of high school) I can

The end-of-year beg-a-thons have gotten old. Very old. Annual appeals for donations are now a tradition as predictable, as permanent, as champagne and blackeyed peas—only without the party. Don’t get us

Was the daguerreotype for real? Joseph Saxton had heard about the recently-announced invention from Paris. He wondered: could this process actually allow anyone to replicate scenes in infinite, accurate

Proof of High Stakes in Philadelphia We promised you this: The stakes of history are high in Philadelphia. And indeed they are. So, for those looking at careers in public history, I developed a course

Come the new year, as readers of our first post at @phillyhistory know, this account will be home to the First Steem-Powered University Course: “Nonprofit Management for Historians” (History 5151) starting

In partnership with @sndbox, this Steemit account will be a platform for a graduate level course at Temple University: “Nonprofit Management for Historians” (History 5151) with Professor Kenneth Finkel,

In times like these, we must ask and answer such questions. From mid-September through early October, Fireflies flickered up and down Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway with hundreds of colorful,

What should stay and what should go in a living city? I’ve asked the question repeatedly over the years in my posts at PhillyHistory. After all, what good is a Heritage City with no heritage (other than

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