Athenaeum of Philadelphia--Podcasts

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Podcasts

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic
2020-02-27	Speaker: Nancy Moses Introduction: Beth Hessel	Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds
2020-02-06	Speaker: Holly A. Crocker Introduction: Beth Hessel	“Virtues that Matter: from Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women to Shakespeare’s Hamlet”
2020-01-08	Speaker: Alexander Garvin Introduction: Beth Hessel	The Heart of the City: Creating Vibrant Downtowns for a New Century
2019-12-04	Speaker: Madeline Miller, Patrick Spero Introduction: Beth Hessel	“Fact and Fiction in the Writing of Histories”
2019-11-21	Speaker: Patricia Tyson Stroud Introduction: Beth Hessel	Bitterroot: The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis
2019-10-29	Speaker: Scott Moore Introduction: Beth Hessel	“Philadelphia and the World’s Water Crisis: Local Solutions to a Global Challenge”
2019-10-24	Speaker: Janny Scott Introduction: Beth Hessel	The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
2019-10-10	Speaker: Suzanne Hinman Introduction: Beth Hessel	"Diana Reigns: How Philadelphia Saved the Golden Goddess"
2019-09-25	Speaker: Amy Cohen Introduction: Bruce Laverty	"Louis Magaziner and Julian Abele: The Story of an Unusual Friendship"
2019-09-12	Speaker: Tom Keels Introduction: Beth Hessel	"Designing for the Dead: Art and Architecture at Philadelphia Cemeteries"
2019-06-12	Speaker: Peter Conn	“The Athenaeum and the History of Libraries”
2019-06-07	Speaker: Anna Pitoniak Introduction: Peter Conn	Necessary People
2019-06-06	Speaker: Ted Maust Introduction: Matt Rader	"The Evolution of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society"
2019-06-03	Speaker: Robert Hauser Introduction: Peter Conn	“The Past, Present and Future of APS” Slides
2019-05-29	Speaker: Larry Platt Introduction: Peter Conn	“Reinvigorating Citizenship in the Birthplace of American Democracy”
2019-05-23	Speaker: Madeline Miller Introduction: Peter Conn	Circe
2019-05-20	Speaker: Maureen Corrigan Introduction: Peter Conn	“Who Do You Think You Are? A Critic Responds”
2019-05-13	Speaker: Steven Weitzman Introduction: Peter Conn	"The Book of Job, God on Trial"
2019-05-09	Speaker: Lorene Cary Introduction: Peter Conn	Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century
2019-04-08	Speaker: Martin Filler Introduction: Peter Conn	“Makers of Modern Architecture: A Critic’s Journey”
2019-03-13	Speaker: Michael Witmore Introduction: Peter Conn	“A Monument to Shakespeare in the Nation’s Capital.”
2019-03-06	Speaker: Michael Barsanti Introduction: Peter Conn	“The Past, Present, and Future of the Library Company”
2019-02-28	Speaker: Steven Conn Introduction: Peter Conn	“Thinking about Thoreau in an Age of Resistance”
2019-02-22	Speaker: Bob Perkins Introduction: Peter Conn	“Preparing for the Unknown”
2018-11-08	Speaker: Stephen Fried Introduction: George Wohlreich, M.D., Peter Conn	Reclaiming Our “Lost” Founding Father, Dr. Benjamin Rush
2018-09-26	Speaker: Erica Armstrong Dunbar Introduction: Peter Conn	Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
2018-09-12	Speaker: Rachel Slade Introduction: Peter Conn	Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
2018-06-27	Speaker: Jennifer Egan Introduction: Peter Conn	Manhattan Beach
2018-05-11	Speaker: Paul Goldberger Introduction: Timothy Rub	“What Does the City Beautiful Mean for the 21st Century City?”
2018-03-15	Speaker: Laurie Olin Introduction: Peter Conn	Be Seated
2018-02-28	Speaker: David Nelson Wren Introduction: Robert Linck, Peter Conn	Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate on The Main Line
2018-02-07	Speaker: Nathaniel Popkin, Peter Woodall, Andrew Ferrett Introduction: Peter Conn	Philadelphia: Finding The Hidden City
2017-11-06	Speaker: Superintendent William R. Hite, Jr., Ed.D. Introduction: Peter Conn	"Philadelphia's Public Schools"
2017-10-25	Speaker: Thomas H. Keels Introduction: Peter Conn	Sesqui! Greed, Graft, and the Forgotten World’s Fair of 1926
2017-09-22	Speaker: Robert Skaler, Bruce Laverty Introduction: Peter Conn	Real Philadelphia: Selections from the Robert M. Skaler Postcard Collection
2017-04-28	Speaker: Walter Licht	Railroad History: What’s Next?
2017-04-29	Speaker: Bruce Laverty	Cross Ties Across Town: The Impact of the Railroad on Urban Design in Downtown Philadelphia
2017-04-29	Speaker: Stephen Fried	How Fred Harvey and the Santa Fe RR Civilized the West— One Meal at a Time
2017-04-29	Speaker: Cornelius Bynum	The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and A. Philip Randolph’s Vision of Racial Advancement
2017-04-29	Speaker: Peter Conn	Picturing Railroads
2017-04-03	Speaker: Inga Saffron	The New Bedroom City: How Philadelphia’s Frenzied Rowhouse Boom is Suburbanizing the City, Changing Neighborhood Dynamics, and Homogenizing the Urban Landscape
2017-02-22	Speaker: Sean Kelley	Architecture and Justice
2017-02-01	Speaker: Timothy Rub	What a Director Sees
2017-01-18	Speaker: Michael J. Lewis	City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning
2016-11-16	Speaker: Patrick Harker	Central Banking and Its Discontents?
2016-11-02	Speaker: Howard Gillette, Caroline Golab, Charlene Mires, Dominic Vitiello	Immigration in Philadelphia
1997-10-29	Speaker: James H. Billington Introduction: Roger W. Moss, Lea Carson Sherk, Michele Ridge	"The Library and the Electronic Future"