The following is a list of works about
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* Joseph Jackson. Encyclopedia of Philadelphia. 1931
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* Ellis Oberholtzer. ''Philadelphia: A History of the City and Its People.'' (4 vol 1936
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* Bridenbaugh, Carl. ''Cities in the Wilderness-The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625–1742'' (1938
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* Herman Collins. ''Philadelphia: A Story of Progress.'' (1941)
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* Bridenbaugh, Carl. ''Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743–1776'' (1955)
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* Philadelphia the Fabulous City of Firsts. 1976.
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* Ershkowitz, Herbert. ''John Wanamaker: Philadelphia Merchant'' (Signpost Biographies-Da Capo Press, 1999)
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* Giberti, Bruno. (2002) ''Designing the Centennial: a history of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia'' (University Press of Kentucky).
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* Phillips, Anne E. (2005) "A history of the struggle for school desegregation in Philadelphia, 1955–1967." ''Pennsylvania History'' 72.1 : 49-76
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* Arrigale, Lawrence M., and Thomas H. Keels. (2012) ''Philadelphia's Golden Age of Retail'' (Arcadia Publishing).
* Jordan, David M. (2012) ''Occasional Glory: The History of the Philadelphia Phillies'' (McFarland).
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* Abigail Perkiss, (2014). ''Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia.'' Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
* Adams, James H. (2015). ''Urban Reform and Sexual Vice in Progressive-Era Philadelphia: The Faithful and the Fallen.'' Lanham, MD: Lexington.
* Wilson, Arthur Herman. (2017) ''A History of the Philadelphia Theatre, 1835-1855'' (University of Pennsylvania Press).
* Golden, Janet, and Charles E. Rosenberg. (2017) ''Pictures of health: A photographic history of health care in Philadelphia, 1860-1945'' (University of Pennsylvania Press.)
* Harris, Michael C. (2020) ''Germantown: A Military History of the Battle for Philadelphia, October 4, 1777'' (Savas Beatie).
See also
* History of Philadelphia
The city of Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Before then, the area was inhabited by the Lenape people. Philadelphia quickly grew into an imp ...
* Timeline of Philadelphia
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
17th-18th centuries
* 1682 – Philadelphia founded as capital of the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania by William Penn.
* 1689 – William Penn Charter ...
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