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Bibliography of Philadelphia

The following is a list of works about Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

List of works, arranged chronologically

Published in the 18th century

Published in the 19th century

1800s–1840s

1850s–1890s

Published in the 20th century

1900s–1940s

  • Joseph Jackson. Encyclopedia of Philadelphia. 1931
  • Ellis Oberholtzer. Philadelphia: A History of the City and Its People. (4 vol 1936) online
  • Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in the Wilderness-The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625–1742 (1938) online
  • Herman Collins. Philadelphia: A Story of Progress. (1941)

1950s–1990s

  • Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743–1776 (1955)
  • Philadelphia the Fabulous City of Firsts. 1976.
  • Ershkowitz, Herbert. John Wanamaker: Philadelphia Merchant (Signpost Biographies-Da Capo Press, 1999)

Published in the 21st century

  • Giberti, Bruno. (2002) Designing the Centennial: a history of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia (University Press of Kentucky).
  • Phillips, Anne E. (2005) "A history of the struggle for school desegregation in Philadelphia, 1955–1967." Pennsylvania History 72.1 : 49-76. online
  • 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).
  • 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).

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