Description: "For the nation's 250th anniversary, the editorial team of The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia presents a new history of Philadelphia across its many dimensions: the region, the nation, and the world. With the city at the center, topics range from pre-colonial times to the present to animate the region spanning southeastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey, and northern Delaware. Informed by the most advanced contemporary scholarship and richly illustrated, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation opens with Philadelphia's important role during the American Revolution and its place as the nation's capital and as a capital for Black America. For the first time, these topics are combined with the ongoing dynamics of citizenship and nationhood as they unfolded in the Philadelphia region from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. The volume also follows the region's reach through transportation, communications, and popular culture. From revolutionaries to Rocky, readers will be immersed in Greater Philadelphia's role in creating, challenging, and sustaining the nation"-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Jean R. Soderlund is Professor Emerita of History at Lehigh University and editor of William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: A Documentary History, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Review Quotes: "It's the right time to reflect on 1776 from a 2026 perspective. Top historians including Charlene Mires and Howard Gillette edited the volumes, which draw on dozens of experts and community voices to tell Philadelphia's story to a new generation. . . . This monumental work is essential."-- "The Philadelphia Citizen"