All Episodes

From Beagling to Barbaro: Horses, Hounds, the Main Line, and Laurel Hill

Frank Whiteside: An Incident on Waverly

Jacqueline & Emily Powell: When a Mother Kills

George Boehm: Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘em

Roy Wilson White: Three Wrongs Don't Remake Roy White

S. Morris Waln: Red Dog Meets His Maker

Murder Most Foul, Part 2; Five More Slain Philadelphians

(BONUS) A Cabinet of Memory: When a Museum Closes

From the Silver Streak to Baby Nukes

Thomas E. Murphy: A Piece of the 1930s Phillies

OPTIONAL: What's in a (Nick)Name: Casual Othering in Baseball Nicknames

Joseph Howard Berry, Jr.: Penn's Greatest Athlete with a Problematic Nickname

Frank Bettger: A Successful Failure

Frank Fleer Goes Pink

Francis Richter: Voice for Baseball

Play Ball!, Part 4: The Deep Bench – Oddballs, Owners, and Also-Rans

Jáni Szántó: Violins, Exile, and Hope

Wilhelm von Wymetal: Opera for Everyone

Oscar “Papa” Schwar: Kettledrum Virtuoso

Saving Music from the Nazis

OPTIONAL COUNTERFACTUAL: USA without Slavery & Immigration

The 1851 Christiana Riots and Laurel Hill

Robert Ralston Stewart and His Broken Urn

Stephen Duncan: Owning 2200 Human Beings

Germany, Slavery, and John Bohlen

Slavery in Colonial Philadelphia

Slavery and Laurel Hill

Seo Jae-Pil, aka Philip Jaisohn, MD: The Room Where It Happened

LTG John C Pemberton: The Loss of Vicksburg

MG George Gordon Meade: The Man Who Saved the Union

July 4, 1863

Jeff Lee Johnson: Never "Just a Session Man"

Winston Samuels: Israelites

Rudolph Hennig: There's Always Room for Cello

Three More Musicians from Laurel Hill West

Rev William Smith: Penn's Forgotten Founder

Hilery Baker: Philadelphia's First "Officer Down"

Alexander Murray: A Forgotten Commodore

Thomas Godfrey: A New Way to See the Horizon

Invitation to an Exhumation

Mobile Corpses from the 18th Century

George Gerbner: The Man Who Counted Fear

Take Me to the River: A Virtual Tour

The Drew / Barrymore Clan at Mount Vernon: Laurel Hill's Next-door Neighbors by Thomas Keels

BARMOUTH to PENCOYD

PENCOYD to BARMOUTH

The Potter - Vanuxem Clan

Charles & William Kindred: Go West, Young Men

Francis Sully Darley: The Best Organist in the City

A Few Loose Ends: Cleaning Out Some Old Files

Ashes to Ashes: The Outdoor Tour (to be removed April 20)

Ashes to Ashes: The Indoor Tour (to be removed April 20, 2026)

Samuel Perkins and the City Hall Cats

John Christian Bullitt: Philadelphia and the Bullitt Bill

John McArthur, Jr.: Nude Defending a Staircase

Matthias Baldwin: Taking Pleasure in Perfection

Re-introduction to City Hall Statues, This Time Outside

Four Statues Outside City Hall: Baldwin, Bullitt, McArthur, Perkins

Sophie Hutchinson Drinker: Smashing the Patriarchy with Music

Clare Wofford: Emerging from the Shadow of Harris

Florence Cowanova: Teaching Dance and Elegance

Tillie May Forney: Getting the Scoop from the Woman’s Perspective

Emily Elizabeth Holman: Philadelphia's Leading Woman Architect

Women's History Month 2026

Walter R. Livingston, Jr.: Building with a Black Esthetic

Mpozi Tolbert: Mpozitivity in Naptown

Julia Komai: Freedom for Liberia

Rev. Leonard Smalls: A Parish of Prisoners

Frances "Mom" Williams: "Get Off Your Rocker and Vote!"

Black History 2026

Mary S. Costanza: Finding a Glimmer of Light in the Darkness

Samuel Patch Frankenfield: Laying Out the Dead

Dr. Thomas Hewson Bache: Cofounder of Children's Hospital

Daniel Pabst: Philadelphia's Top Cabinet Maker

Henry Hagert: Prosecuting Catto's Accused Killer

Martha Coston: She Had a Certain Flare (encore episode from 2020)

Happy 200th Birthday to Five Laurel Hill Residents

James "Jimmy" Bland: From Minstrelsy to Mummery

Frank Dumont: "Gentlemen Be Seated" - Standardizing Minstrelsy

Carncross & Dixey: Two Fathers of Modern Minstrelsy

A Brief History of Performance

Mummers, Minstrels, and Laurel Hill

Benjamin Richards: Merchant, Mayor and Cemetery Cheerleader

Nathan Dunn and His 10,000 Chinese Things

John Jay Smith: A Founder's Non-Cemetery Life

The First 20 Years of Laurel Hill

Some Laurel Hill Founders: The First 20 Years

Lon Jourdet: The Face of Early Quaker Basket Ball

Basket Ball and Laurel Hill

Hugh Craig, Jr.: The Glue That Held It All Together

Joseph Lapsley Wilson: The Trooper as Horticulturalist

A. Loudon Snowden: The Man Who Did Everything

Fairman Rogers: Horseman Extraordinaire

1st City Troop: The First 150 Years

Happy 250th to the First City Troop

Hell Hath No Fury

The Viper and the Vampire

John Hobbs: Victim of an Obsession

Wives Who Kill, Edwardian Edition

Mariticide for Beginners