Bibliography of Philadelphia

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

List of works, arranged chronologically

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Published in the 18th century

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  • Francis White (1785). Philadelphia Directory. Philadelphia: Printed by Young, Stewart, and McCulloch.
  • Clement Biddle (1791). Philadelphia Directory. Philadelphia: Printed by James & Johnson.
  • Edmund Hogan (1795). Prospect of Philadelphia and Check on the Next Directory. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis & Robert Bailey.
  • J. Morse (1797). "Philadelphia". American Gazetteer. Boston, Massachusetts: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews.
  • Cornelius William Stafford (1785). Philadelphia Directory for 1799. Philadelphia: Printed by William W. Woodward.

Published in the 19th century

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1800s–1840s

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1850s–1890s

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Published in the 20th century

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1900s–1940s

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1950s–1990s

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Published in the 21st century

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  • David Patrick Geggus, ed. (2001). "Saint-Domingue Refugees of Color in Philadelphia". The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. University of South Carolina. ISBN 978-1-57003-416-9.
  • Giberti, Bruno. (2002) Designing the Centennial: a history of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia (University Press of Kentucky).
  • David Levinson, ed. (2004). "Philadelphia". Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0-7619-2751-8.
  • Phillips, Anne E. (2005) "A history of the struggle for school desegregation in Philadelphia, 1955–1967." Pennsylvania History 72.1 : 49-76. online
  • David Marley (2005), "United States: Philadelphia", Historic Cities of the Americas, vol. 2, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, p. 604+, ISBN 1576070271
  • Brookes, Karin; et al. (2005), Insight Guides: Philadelphia and Surroundings (2nd ed.), APA Publications, ISBN 1-58573-026-2
  • 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).
  • "Four Square Blocks: Philadelphia", New York Times, October 9, 2013
  • American Cities Project (November 11, 2013). "Philadelphia". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, D.C.: Pew Charitable Trusts.
  • 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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