Category Archives: History

The Nice Try! Levittown/Concord Park podcast featured a description of the development of suburban homeownership in America, specifically under the context of the Levittown and Concord Park suburbs. The podcast poses the goal of a suburbian complex to be ideal and the question if “the suburbs ever succeed at becoming a utopia?” It is aContinue reading “Levittown, Pennsylvania and Concord Park: Will a Suburban Utopia Ever Exist?”

2.3 million people incarcerated, 7 million people on parole and probation, and 1 in every 108 adult was in prison or jail as of 2012. This is Criminal Justice in contemporary America. A system that is used to implant false justice into prisons so that it satisfies the witness and strengthens the profit of theContinue reading ““I’ve come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”-Bryan Stevenson: Ted Talk”

The Criminal Justice System, in its purest state, is the delivery of justice to the convicted. The ideal vision of criminal justice in society is one which is beneficial towards the convicted, where human engagement is generally improved through rehabilitation, prevention of any further crimes, and moral support for the well-being and safety of theContinue reading “Criminal Justice and the Pennsylvania System: Dreaming Big and Problem Solving”

Visit from Officer Whitehead Juvenile Justice Officer Officer Whitehead, a juvenile justice officer, entered our history room ready to reveal her journey from a medical officer to the juvenile probation system and every detail in between. For my peers and I, we were previously working on a prison system unit, and were urging to hearContinue reading “A Visit from Officer Whitehead”

Architecture plays a crucial role in the making of an effective prison. In the United States alone, we imprison more than 2 million people per year, and the number continues to rage on. While our country borders mass incarceration, new prisons are being constructed everywhere. To prevent overcrowding, prison architects take years to predict, construct,Continue reading “History: Prison Maps Blog Post”

Yellow Fever was a raging epidemic of the 18th century. The epidemic spread across Philadelphia, Africa, and the Carribean; but how was this epidemic influenced by history? What came before the horrible illness that wiped out Philadelphia? The geographic origins of the Yellow Fever epidemic were all affected by revolutions around the world. All ofContinue reading “How Geographic Locations Affected the Result of Yellow Fever”

When getting out to create the canvas of Philadelphia, William Penn made a promise for religious and political freedom. King Charles II owed debt to his father, Admiral Penn. Penn was gifted a share of land West of The Delaware River as the payment. Young, lucky, and a novice, William Penn had the idea forContinue reading “William Penn’s Promise to Philadelphia”