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Philadelphia Reflections
A history of the Philadelphia area: William Penn's Quaker Colonies
- Philadelphia Reflections
William Penn's Quaker Colonies plus medicine, economics and politics - Albert Gallatin
A magnificent but largely forgotten man. - The Constitution
The Constitution is not a paper signed at any old convention. It was forged from the difficulties which forced its creation, and new difficulties soon revealed by implementing it. Its essence, the penetrating spirit of urgent compromise, flows from the Quaker environment of Philadelphia. A Republic, if you can keep it. - Shaping the Constitution in Philadelphia
After Independence, the weakness of the Federal government dismayed a band of ardent patriots, so under Washington's leadership a stronger Constitution was written. Almost immediately, comrades discovered they had wanted the same thing for different reasons, so during the formative period they struggled to reshape future directions . Moving the Capitol from Philadelphia to the Potomac proved curiously central to all this. - Government Organization
Government Organization - Right Angle Club 2008
A report, to the year 2008 shareholders of the Right Angle Club of Philadelphia, by the outgoing president, Neale Bringhurst... www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/120.htm - Haddonfield
Haddonfield is a bit of a secret. It's Philadelphia's "Main Line, East". - Articles of Confederation
For thirteen years the country was ruled by the Articles of Confederation, and by Philadelphia. We learned many lessons during that episode, and we are beginning to forget we learned them. - Pacifist Pennsylvania, Invaded Many Times
Pennsylvania was founded as a pacifist utopia, and currently regards itself as protected by vast oceans. But Pennsylvania has been seriously invaded at least six times. - Foreign Affairs
This topic is under construction. Feel free to watch it evolve. - Connecticut Invades Pennsylvania!
The rest of the world fights wars about national grievances, both recent and long past. Meanwhile, Connecticut once waged a serious war with Pennsylvania, and we don't even remember it. - Culture and Traditions (2)
Culture and Traditions (2) - To Germantown, a Short Appreciation
Seven miles from the heart of Philadelphia, Germantown was once a separate town, the cultural center of Germans in America. Revolutionary battles were fought here, it was briefly the capital of the United States, and it still has an outstanding collection of schools and colleges. - Causes of the American Revolution
Britain and its colonies had outgrown Eighteenth Century techniques of governance. Unfortunately, both England and America also lacked the sophistication to make drastic changes smoothly. - Sporting Philadelphia
A few reflections about sports in and around Philadelphia. - Curtis
To Cy Curtis, magazines were just vehicles for advertisers. In fact, his mags taught former farmers how to manage urban life, more or less accidentally creating a focus for American books, authors, politics and literature. The fall of his empire teaches the lesson that antitrust laws against vertical integration are probably unnecessary. - Subcultures
A few reflections about the subcultures in and around Philadelphia. - Nature Preservation
Nature preservation and nature destruction are different parts of an eternal process. - Art in Philadelphia
The history of art, particularly painting and sculpture, has been a long and distinguished one. If you add in the art schools, the Philadelphia national influence on artists has been a dominant one. - Health Insurance
Clinton Health Plan and its replacements. - Philadelphia's West Country
Like all cities, Philadelphia is filling in and choking up with subdivisions and development, in all directions from the center. The last place to fill up is the Welsh Barony, a tip of which can be said to extend all the way in town to the Art Museum. - Right Angle Club 2007
A report, to the year 2007 shareholders of the Right Angle Club of Philadelphia, by the outgoing president. www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/73.htm - Website Development
The website technology supporting Philadelphia Reflections is PHP, MySQL and DHTML. The web hosting service is Internet Planners. - Computers and Websites
Much of the early development of the electronic computer took place in Philadelphia. We lost the lead, but it might return. - Science
Science - Personal Finance
The rules of financial health are simple, but remarkably hard to follow. Be frugal in order to save, use your savings to buy the whole market not parts of it, if this system ain't broke, don't fix it. And don't underestimate your longevity. - Nobel Prizes
Some Philadelphians won Nobel Prizes for work done here, or elsewhere. Some prize winners would deny they are Philadelphians, but their work was nevertheless done here. - Investing, Philadelphia Style
Land ownership once was the only practical form of savings, until banking matured in the mid-19th century. Philadelphia took an early lead in what is now called investment and still defines a certain style of it. - Food and Drink in Philadelphia
A flowing abundance of food sources made Philadelphia the capital of food and drink, right from earliest times. - Dislocations: Financial and Fundamental
The crash of 2007 was more than a bank panic. It was a collision of several revolutions which were all ripples from the same splash. - Benjamin Franklin
A collection of Benjamin Franklin tidbits that relate Philadelphia's revolutionary prelate to his moving around the city, the colonies, and the world. - America's Historic Square Mile (pre-1800)
Society Hill: Philadelphia's authentic colonial area, from the Delaware River west to 8th Street the limit of settlement in 1776, but for a while the center of America. The richest, most famous men in America lived within a few blocks of each other. Things happened here. - Academia in the Philadelphia Region
Higher education is a source of pride, progress, and aggravation. - Whither, Federal Reserve?
The Federal Reserve seems to be a big black box, containing magic. In fact, it's high-wire acrobatics that must not be allowed to fail. - Quakers: The Society of Friends
According to an old Quaker joke, the Holy Trinity consists of the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the neighborhood of Philadelphia. - Philadelphia Economics
economics - Philadelphia Changes the Nature of Money
Banking changed its fundamentals, on Third Street in Philadelphia, three different ti