Athenaeum of Philadelphia--Podcasts

Podcasts

Date	Title/Topic	Speaker	Introduction

2020-02-27	Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds	Nancy Moses	Beth Hessel
2020-02-06	“Virtues that Matter: from Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women to Shakespeare’s Hamlet”	Holly A. Crocker	Beth Hessel
2020-01-08	The Heart of the City: Creating Vibrant Downtowns for a New Century	Alexander Garvin	Beth Hessel
2019-12-04	“Fact and Fiction in the Writing of Histories”	Madeline Miller, Patrick Spero	Beth Hessel
2019-11-21	Bitterroot: The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis	Patricia Tyson Stroud	Beth Hessel
2019-10-29	“Philadelphia and the World’s Water Crisis: Local Solutions to a Global Challenge”	Scott Moore	Beth Hessel
2019-10-24	The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father	Janny Scott	Beth Hessel
2019-10-10	"Diana Reigns: How Philadelphia Saved the Golden Goddess"	Suzanne Hinman	Beth Hessel
2019-09-25	"Louis Magaziner and Julian Abele: The Story of an Unusual Friendship"	Amy Cohen	Bruce Laverty
2019-09-12	"Designing for the Dead: Art and Architecture at Philadelphia Cemeteries"	Tom Keels	Beth Hessel
2019-06-12	“The Athenaeum and the History of Libraries”	Peter Conn
2019-06-07	Necessary People	Anna Pitoniak	Peter Conn
2019-06-06	"The Evolution of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society"	Ted Maust	Matt Rader
2019-06-03	“The Past, Present and Future of APS” Slides	Robert Hauser	Peter Conn
2019-05-29	“Reinvigorating Citizenship in the Birthplace of American Democracy”	Larry Platt	Peter Conn
2019-05-23	Circe	Madeline Miller	Peter Conn
2019-05-20	“Who Do You Think You Are? A Critic Responds”	Maureen Corrigan	Peter Conn
2019-05-13	"The Book of Job, God on Trial"	Steven Weitzman	Peter Conn
2019-05-09	Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century	Lorene Cary	Peter Conn
2019-04-08	“Makers of Modern Architecture: A Critic’s Journey”	Martin Filler	Peter Conn
2019-03-13	“A Monument to Shakespeare in the Nation’s Capital.”	Michael Witmore	Peter Conn
2019-03-06	“The Past, Present, and Future of the Library Company”	Michael Barsanti	Peter Conn
2019-02-28	“Thinking about Thoreau in an Age of Resistance”	Steven Conn	Peter Conn
2019-02-22	“Preparing for the Unknown”	Bob Perkins	Peter Conn
2018-11-08	Reclaiming Our “Lost” Founding Father, Dr. Benjamin Rush	Stephen Fried	George Wohlreich, MD, Peter Conn
2018-09-26	Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge	Erica Armstrong Dunbar	Peter Conn
2018-09-12	Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro	Rachel Slade	Peter Conn
2018-06-27	Manhattan Beach	Jennifer Egan	Peter Conn
2018-05-11	“What Does the City Beautiful Mean for the 21st Century City?”	Paul Goldberger	Timothy Rub
2018-03-15	Be Seated	Laurie Olin	Peter Conn
2018-02-28	Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate on The Main Line	David Nelson Wren	Robert Linck, Peter Conn
2018-02-07	Philadelphia: Finding The Hidden City	Nathaniel Popkin, Peter Woodall, Andrew Ferrett	Peter Conn
2017-11-06	"Philadelphia's Public Schools"	Superintendent William R. Hite, Jr., Ed.D.	Peter Conn
2017-10-25	Sesqui! Greed, Graft, and the Forgotten World’s Fair of 1926	Thomas H. Keels	Peter Conn
2017-09-22	Real Philadelphia: Selections from the Robert M. Skaler Postcard Collection	Robert Skaler, Bruce Laverty	Peter Conn
Roger W. Moss Symposium-Engine of Change: Railroads in American Society

2017-04-28	Railroad History: What’s Next?	Walter Licht	Peter Conn
2017-04-29	Cross Ties Across Town: The Impact of the Railroad on Urban Design in Downtown Philadelphia	Bruce Laverty	Peter Conn
2017-04-29	How Fred Harvey and the Santa Fe RR Civilized the West— One Meal at a Time	Stephen Fried	Peter Conn
2017-04-29	The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and A. Philip Randolph’s Vision of Racial Advancement	Cornelius Bynum	Peter Conn
2017-04-29	Picturing Railroads	Peter Conn

2017-04-03	The New Bedroom City: How Philadelphia’s Frenzied Rowhouse Boom is Suburbanizing the City, Changing Neighborhood Dynamics, and Homogenizing the Urban Landscape	Inga Saffron	Peter Conn
2017-02-22	Architecture and Justice	Sean Kelley	Peter Conn
2017-02-01	What a Director Sees	Timothy Rub	Robert Linck, Peter Conn
2017-01-18	City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning	Michael J. Lewis	Robert Linck, Peter Conn
2016-11-16	Central Banking and Its Discontents?	Patrick Harker	Robert Linck, Peter Conn
2016-11-02	Immigration in Philadelphia	Howard Gillette, Caroline Golab, Charlene Mires, Dominic Vitiello	Peter Conn