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Exploring Black America: A historian’s unique path of inquiry
Marcia Chatelain

Marcia Chatelain’s next book, coming out this fall, is a narrative history of the women who played roles in the 1963 March on Washington.

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Exploring Black America: A historian’s unique path of inquiry

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marcia Chatelain, a Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies, takes a unique approach to history, from the impact of fast food to the leadership of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Chapters of Change: The blossom of Penn’s professional schools in the 19th century
Penn’s campus in 1891.

A view of campus on May 20, 1891, looking northeast toward the corner of 34th and Walnut streets.

(Image: Courtesy of University Archives)

Chapters of Change: The blossom of Penn’s professional schools in the 19th century

“Chapters of Change” highlights key moments of change in Penn’s history, adapting to shifts in society. In the 19th century, the University faced industrialization and more by creating some of its first professional schools.

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A look at Revolutionary War nursing
Meg Roberts and Jessica Martucci looking at the Nursing the Revolution exhibition wall.

Curator Jessica Martucci, left, and guest curator Meg Roberts discuss the “Nursing the Revolution” exhibit at the Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.

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A look at Revolutionary War nursing

A new exhibit at Penn’s Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing documents the long trajectory of nursing in America, going back to the Revolutionary War.

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America’s first hospital to open museum at Pennsylvania Hospital’s historic Pine Street building
Pennsylvania Hospital exterior.

Since its founding in 1751, Pennsylvania Hospital has been a leader in patient care. Today, it is nationally recognized for programs in neurosurgery, obstetrics and high-risk maternal and fetal services, neonatology, behavioral health, and orthopaedics.

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America’s first hospital to open museum at Pennsylvania Hospital’s historic Pine Street building

Pennsylvania Hospital marks its 275th anniversary with exhibits that connect Penn Medicine’s medical history to modern breakthroughs.

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Penn’s ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, turns 80
Jean Bartik (left) and Frances Spence operating the ENIAC’s main control panel in 1946.

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Penn’s ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, turns 80

Housed in the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School Building, ENIAC—the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose computer—launched in 1946. ENIAC’s ability to be reprogrammed to solve a wide range of complex numerical problems was revolutionary and laid the foundation for modern digital systems.

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Exploring ‘One Thousand and One Nights’
Students and faculty look at rare books in the Lea Library.

Dr. Paul Cobb, center, looks on as students and library staff examine rare versions of “One Thousand and One Nights” in the Lea Library.

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Exploring ‘One Thousand and One Nights’

A seminar from Middle Eastern medievalist Paul Cobb gets students talking and thinking about the “disorienting” storytelling in “One Thousand and One Nights.”

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