Category: Book Excerpt

Excerpt: A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and The Dream of Affordable Housing by Betty Boyd Caroli

.Reading time 5 minutes.

This article includes excerpts from A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch andthe Dream of Affordable Housing by Betty Boyd Caroli and published by OxfordUniversity Press in the US © Caroli 2/2/26. Used by permission. All rightsreserved. Footnotes have been removed to ease reading. Lectures formed the centerpiece of Mary’s days, and she planned carefully to take […]

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Bicentennial Philadelphia: An Excerpt

.Reading time 13 minutes.

By Marc Stein The following text is reprinted with permission from Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s by Marc Stein, published by The University of Chicago Press. © 2026 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. When the PBC [Philadelphia 1976 Bicentennial Corporation] board met on October 23 [1970] at the Penn Mutual […]

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