Tracing street name origins in Philadelphia is like following the trail of American history. It winds, it rolls, it leads you to unexpected places.

Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of conflict or dispute, naming plays out in numerous ways that in

The life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the first civil rights movement in America.

Since the 1960s, public attention has been drawn increasingly towards the thematic link between historic preservation and urban planning. Nowadays, the organize

Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Bill Tilden were the legendary quartet of the “Golden Age of Sports” in the 1920s. They transformed their respecti