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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 find my review of the product of our

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 of condoms. Next I'm going to turn

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 with direct mailers of personalized

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 thematically-compatible spirit as my colleague

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

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 in the military, prisoners at Philadelphia's

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 epidemic, for some the mood in Center City

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 lists war casualties, appeals for

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 film industry produced many exciting

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 Philadelphia. I’m gearing up to #explore1918

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 not yet available as a means of distraction.

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 a lot of exciting work in my first semester,