Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Daniel K. Richter
Introduction. Places and People
Completed by Rodney Hessinger
Part I. For the Love of God: Three Colonial Men of Faith
Prologue
Daniel K. Richter
Chapter 1. Anthony Benezet
Completed by Jean R. Soderlund
Chapter 2. Henry Muhlenberg
Completed by Lisa Minardi
Chapter 3. William White
Completed by Sarah Barringer Gordon
Part II. Declaring Independence: Three Revolutionary Wives
Prologue
C. Dallett Hemphill
Chapter 4. Grace Growden Galloway
Completed by Judith L. Van Buskirk
Chapter 5. Anne Shippen Livingston
Completed by Susan Branson
Chapter 6. Deborah Norris Logan
Completed by Rodney Hessinger
Part III. Striving to Succeed: Three "Self-Made Men" in the New Nation
Prologue
Rodney Hessinger
Chapter 7. Charles Willson Peale
Completed by Nenette Luarca-Shoaf
Chapter 8. Stephen Girard
Completed by Brenna O'Rourke Holland
Chapter 9. Joseph Hemphill
Completed by Sarah K. Rodriguez
Part IV. Pursuing an Inclusive America: Three Aspiring Antebellum Lives
Prologue
Rodney Hessinger
Chapter 10. Francis Johnson
Completed by Richard S. Newman
Chapter 11. Sarah Thorn Tyndale
Completed by Susan E. Klepp
Chapter 12. William Darrah Kelley
Completed by Andrew Shankman
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

Philadelphia Stories chronicles the rich lives of twelve of its citizens—men and women, Black and white Americans, immigrants and native born—to explore the city's people and places from the colonial era to the years before the Civil War.

About the Author

C. Dallett Hemphill (1959-2015) was Professor of History at Ursinus College. Rodney Hessinger is Professor of History at John Carroll University. Daniel K. Richter is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania.