These stories and essays, for the most part, take place in the city of Philadelphia. Taken together, they paint the portrait of a young scholar trying to find h

A forgotten, and often bizarre, history of Philadelphia is unearthed in these quirky vignettes.

"An alternative, history-focused guidebook to a selection of Philadelphia's heroes and notable places"--

Serial killer H.H. Holmes built his murder castle in Chicago, but he met the hangman in Philadelphia. Al Capone served his first prison sentence here. The real-

Philadelphia Stories is a kind of family album. As in their earlier volume, Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940, Miller, Vogel, and Davis have