Kate Hanfling
Library Favorites: Anansi Stories
This blog introduces Anansi the Spider, an important character in West African culture and folklore, and lists resources for adults and chil
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Kate Hanfling
- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
Library Favorites: I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History's Strangest Cures
Hello everyone and happy fall! This month’s pick is a fun one! Carlyn Beccia’s I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History’s...
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Kate Hanfling
- Aug 2, 2022
- 3 min
Library Favorites: We Are Still Here!
Welcome to July’s edition of Library Favorites. This month features Traci Sorell's "We Are Still Here."
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Kate McGowan
- Mar 10, 2022
- 2 min
Want to learn more about Early America? Start your research here!
From time to time, we get asked for help with homework, research problems, and burning questions from the public. So, we thought we’d...
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Kate McGowan
- Feb 12, 2022
- 4 min
Three Eighteenth Century Inspired Valentine Ideas
Decorated Love Letter c.1809 (Free Library of Philadelphia) It’s easy to assume—looking down the seasonal aisles of the grocery store at...
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Kaylin Beach
- Jul 6, 2021
- 5 min
Textile Talk: Flax
Here’s another textile history lesson for you this fine day, this time on the topic of Flax. Perhaps you are familiar with the term...
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Shemika Berry
- Jun 28, 2021
- 3 min
Hear Us, See Us: Museum Theatre and Beyond
Using tools like these, it's possible to deliver programs that educate audiences about the truth of our history
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Kaylin Beach
- Apr 27, 2021
- 4 min
Tobacco Tidbit: Planting Perspective
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that the tobacco plant will be responsible for a substantial improvement in the health of a...
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Shemika Berry
- Apr 24, 2021
- 4 min
Hear Us, See Us: Voicing the Past
First-person interpretation is more than wearing a costume and sharing stories from the past.
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Kate Hanfling, Volunteer
- Apr 22, 2021
- 4 min
#National Picnic Day: Picnicking in Colonial America
Though the concept of the American picnic as we know it today only dates back to the 19th century, picnics in some form have been around...
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Shemika Berry
- Mar 30, 2021
- 4 min
HERstory: Hear Her, See Her
This month, as part of Hear Us, See Us, we acknowledge women from various walks of life across the centuries that have shaped this nation.
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Shemika Berry
- Jan 30, 2021
- 2 min
Hear Us, See Us: We Are More Than One Month
A new series of virtual lectures to discuss the importance of talking about all history, all year.
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Accokeek Foundation
- Dec 8, 2020
- 4 min
We've spent the past few months talking about tobacco. Here's what we learned
We have been digging deep into tobacco culture and we have heard the stories of staff, community members, and experts alike.
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Kate McGowan
- Feb 25, 2020
- 3 min
Make Way for Pancake Day
Many in America are familiar with Mardi Gras, but in the UK and Ireland, this holiday has a lesser-known nickname
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Kate McGowan
- Mar 29, 2018
- 3 min
Love Letters in the 18th Century
“Now Letter-Writing is, to me, the most agreable Amusement and Writing to you the most entertaining and Agreable of all Letter-Writing”...
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