In Pursuit | Episode 4: Common Ground (1790 to 1838) @historymakingproductions

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America The President’s House, Congress, and the Supreme Court take shape in Philadelphia, now the capital of the new United States.

In Episode 4, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton falls ill from Yellow Fever as a devastating epidemic sends the capital into crisis and President George Washington flees to Virginia. The epidemic exposes the fragility of the new republic and the tensions simmering beneath its surface. Physician and Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Rush convinces Reverends Richard Allen (founder of the AME Church) and Absalom Jones, both born enslaved, to organize Black nurses and undertakers to risk their lives caring for the sick, only to face accusations and discrimination.

At the center of these struggles Philadelphians invent the institutions of civil society: Nicholas Biddle battles President Andrew Jackson over the fate of the Bank of the United States, Revolutionary War veteran James Forten creates an inter-racial workforce, Roberts Vaux with political aid of Thaddeus Stevens champions public education as a path to opportunity for all children. Sarah Forten, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Lucretia Mott, and Angelina and Sarah Grimke form a potent new force: the Female Anti-Slavery Society. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass warn of a growing national divide.

As debates over race, equality, education, and economic power intensify, Philadelphians confront questions about who belongs, who has a voice, and whether a divided society can find common ground. With historian Allen Guelzo, religion scholar Anthea Butler, Richard Allen biographer Richard Newman, and Reverend Mark Kelly Tyler of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Director: Andrew Ferrett
Writer: Nathaniel Popkin
Executive Producer: Sam Katz
Producers: Wendy Cox, Andrew Ferrett, Jonathan Kohl, Nathaniel Popkin
Episode Teleplay: Nathaniel Popkin, Andrew Ferrett
Editor: Rachel Sophia Stewart
Director of Photography: Paul Van Haute
Narrator: Michael Boatman
Composer: Daniel Slatkin

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In Pursuit | Episode 4: Common Ground (1790 to 1838)

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-06-17 | The President’s House, Congress, and the Supreme Court take shape in Philadelphia, now the capital of the new United States.

In Episode 4, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton falls ill from Yellow Fever as a devastating epidemic sends the capital into crisis and President George Washington flees to Virginia. The epidemic exposes the fragility of the new republic and the tensions simmering beneath its surface. Physician and Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Rush convinces Reverends Richard Allen (founder of the AME Church) and Absalom Jones, both born enslaved, to organize Black nurses and undertakers to risk their lives caring for the sick, only to face accusations and discrimination.

At the center of these struggles Philadelphians invent the institutions of civil society: Nicholas Biddle battles President Andrew Jackson over the fate of the Bank of the United States, Revolutionary War veteran James Forten creates an inter-racial workforce, Roberts Vaux with political aid of Thaddeus Stevens champions public education as a path to opportunity for all children. Sarah Forten, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Lucretia Mott, and Angelina and Sarah Grimke form a potent new force: the Female Anti-Slavery Society. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass warn of a growing national divide.

As debates over race, equality, education, and economic power intensify, Philadelphians confront questions about who belongs, who has a voice, and whether a divided society can find common ground. With historian Allen Guelzo, religion scholar Anthea Butler, Richard Allen biographer Richard Newman, and Reverend Mark Kelly Tyler of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Director: Andrew Ferrett
Writer: Nathaniel Popkin
Executive Producer: Sam Katz
Producers: Wendy Cox, Andrew Ferrett, Jonathan Kohl, Nathaniel Popkin
Episode Teleplay: Nathaniel Popkin, Andrew Ferrett
Editor: Rachel Sophia Stewart
Director of Photography: Paul Van Haute
Narrator: Michael Boatman
Composer: Daniel Slatkin

SERIES TRAILER: youtu.be/Bm3qtfVpR0I?si=r6t3Q8CdTHz0moKU

ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE HERE: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwEWxvgiPVsVD_g6JsElVoPT_HfsMvuSe&si=TKHuegmLvS5uw_vz

Episode 5 Trailer | In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-07-09 | Episode 5: America (1838-1876)

Irish Catholic immigrants escaping bitter poverty and subjugation jam into new neighborhoods on the city’s edge. Conflict emerges in a new, Philadelphia-led American institution created to save the republic: the public school. As churches burn, slavecatchers patrol Philadelphia’s streets, and capitalists pour everything into a maturing technology, the railroad. What version of America will emerge from civil war?

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Episode 4 Trailer | In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-06-05 | Episode 4: Common Ground (1790 to 1838)

Yellow Fever sweeps through the U.S. capital, straining the young nation's social fabric. Richard Allen, born enslaved, rises to challenge accusations against Black nurses and undertakers. Alexander Hamilton persists in his plan for national economic growth. In the wake of the epidemic, Quaker visionary Roberts Vaux pushes for public schooling for all children, President Andrew Jackson attacks Hamilton's vision of a national Bank, as women of different racial backgrounds come together with a plan to end slavery nationwide. Is there hope for common ground?

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In Pursuit | Episode 3: Independence (1763 to 1790)

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-05-14 | Philadelphia is no longer a colonial experiment. It is now the largest and most diverse city in British North America, where competing visions of freedom, power, and democracy collide.

In Episode 3, frontier violence and political unrest push Pennsylvania toward revolution. Armed frontiersmen known as the Paxton Boys march on Philadelphia with grievances against the government and are confronted by Benjamin Franklin. Pacifist Quakers struggle with whether to defend the city by force. Artisans, laborers, and merchants challenge British taxation. Women artisans including Betsy Ross demand a greater voice in public life. Philadelphia's large free Black community raises the stakes for liberty, and Thomas Paine provokes American colonists to unite.

As tensions with Britain escalate, revolutionaries choose Philadelphia as their capital, as the First and Second Continental Congresses led by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams push toward a Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. Now the Quaker City faces war and the threat of invasion. After British General William Howe sacks New York and occupies Philadelphia after the Battle of Brandywine, Franklin convinces King Louis XVI to save the Revolution. Soldiers revolt against Congress as the new U.S. government betrays Lenape leader White Eyes.

Leading to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, this episode explores how conflict, revolution, and competing ideas of freedom transformed Philadelphia and defined the future of the United States. Featuring the late bestselling author David McCullough, historian of democracy Sophia Rosenfeld, UCLA sociologist Marcus Anthony Hunter, poet Ursula Rucker, and Lincoln Prize winning author Allen Guelzo.

Director: Andrew Ferrett
Writer: Nathaniel Popkin
Executive Producer: Sam Katz
Producers: Wendy Cox, Andrew Ferrett, Jonathan Kohl, Nathaniel Popkin
Episode Teleplay: Nathaniel Popkin, Andrew Ferrett
Editor: Rachel Sophia Stewart
Director of Photography: Paul Van Haute
Narrator: Michael Boatman
Composer: Daniel Slatkin

SERIES TRAILER: youtu.be/Bm3qtfVpR0I?si=r6t3Q8CdTHz0moKU

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You may have learned about the Walking Purchase, but do you really know the whole story? #history

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-05-14 | If you learned about the Walking Purchase in school, there’s a chance you didn’t hear the full story.

The disputed land deal between European settlers and the Lenape changed Pennsylvania forever. In Pursuit Episode 2: Land explores its consequences through perspectives many people have never heard before.

#history #philadelphia #philly #pennsylvania

A story every Philadelphia native knows backwards and forwards... or at least you thought you did

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-05-07 | In Pursuit Episode 3: Independence is available on YouTube May 14

#philadelphia #america #americanhistory

The story of this country starts in Philadelphia. And it still matters. Maybe now more than ever.

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-04-29 | In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America is streaming now.

#philly #america #history #documentary

Episode 3 Trailer | In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-04-20 | Episode 3: Independence (1763-1790)

Less a century after the city's founding, a new nation is created on July 4th, 1776 in Philadelphia. Armed frontiersmen land in Philadelphia with grievances for the government. Pacifist Quakers take up guns to defend their city. Artisans chafe against British taxes. Everyone comes to Philadelphia to have their voices heard. The largest, most diverse city in British North America, will Philadelphia become the seat of empire? Or a runway for revolution?

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Episode 3 Teaser | In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-04-20 | The official teaser for Episode 3 of In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America covering the subject of America's independence during the period of 1763-1790.

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In Pursuit | Episode 2: Land (1700 to 1763)

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-04-10 | Quaker ideals of religious freedom attract waves of immigrants from Ireland and Germany to Pennsylvania, but they cannot settle on land that has not been formally acquired at treaty from the Lenape.

In Episode 2, pressure builds on the Penn family as debt mounts and demand for expansion grows. William Penn’s original vision required fair treaties with Indigenous communities, but his sons Thomas, Richard, and John Penn face debt and difficult choices. The future of Philadelphia, North America’s fastest growing city, lies in the balance.

At the center of it all is power broker James Logan. As he helps guide rising figures like Benjamin Franklin and John Bartram, he also becomes deeply involved in the colony’s push for land, industry, and wealth. His authority is challenged by the revolt of an enslaved man, Sampson.

For the Lenape, land is meant to be shared. For Europeans, it becomes something to be owned. That difference leads Logan to attempt to defraud Lenape sachems, an act of dispossession we know as the Walking Purchase, which expands the colony’s developable land by the size of Rhode Island. Lenape sachem Teedyuscung authors a rebellion as Pennsylvania explodes into the violence of the French and Indian War.

This episode explores how ambition, economics, and competing worldviews helped define the future of Philadelphia and the foundations of American democracy. Featuring Pulitzer Prize winning Inga Saffron, music legend Kenny Gamble, artist Aislinn Pentecost-Farren, and Lenape leader Jeremy Johnson.

Director: Andrew Ferrett
Writer: Nathaniel Popkin
Executive Producer: Sam Katz
Producers: Wendy Cox, Andrew Ferrett, Jonathan Kohl, Nathaniel Popkin, Eva Roben
Editor: Jonathan Kohl
Director of Photography: Paul Van Haute
Narrator: Michael Boatman
Composer: Daniel Slatkin

SERIES TRAILER: youtu.be/Bm3qtfVpR0I?si=r6t3Q8CdTHz0moKU

ALL EPISODES AVAILABLE HERE: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwEWxvgiPVsVD_g6JsElVoPT_HfsMvuSe&si=TKHuegmLvS5uw_vz

Episode 2: Land | Trailer

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-03-30 | A promise of freedom meets the reality of land.

Episode 2 of #InPursuit digs into the deals, pressure, and power behind early Pennsylvania—and what it cost the Lenape people.

Episode 2 Trailer | In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-02-24 | Episode 2: Land (1700 to 1763)

The second episode of the ten-part series charts the rapid growth of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania colony. Religious freedom draws waves of immigrants to Philadelphia’s port, but they can’t be settled in Pennsylvania unless the Penn family can sell them land—territory that has not yet been acquired from Lenape sachems at treaty. As pressure mounts along with the colony’s debt, will Penn’s sons betray his vision?

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In Pursuit | Episode 1: Freedom (Until 1700)

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-02-22 | In Episode 1 of In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America, we travel to the forests and inlets of the mid-Atlantic coast, where the Lenape, the “Original People,” have lived at liberty for 18,000 years. After more than half a century of devastating disease and colonial encroachment led by the Dutch West India Company and Peter Stuyvesant, their world is forever changed. In 1632, Lenape revolt at Swanandael (Lewes, Delaware).

Into this fragile landscape comes English Quaker visionary William Penn, disciple of George Fox, pursuing a bold experiment in religious freedom and coexistence. His colony, late among the original North American colonies of King Charles II, promises tolerance and peace and institutes American concepts of individual rights and trial by jury. Yet even as Pennsylvania is founded on ideals of liberty negotiated with Lenape sachem Tamanend, slavery is already taking root. German Quaker settlers led by Frances Daniel Pastorius organize a formal protest against slavery for the first time on American soil.

Can freedom truly flourish in a society built on contradiction? Featuring Lenape elder Michael Pace, cultural leader Jeremy Johnson, the poet Ursula Rucker, historian Allen Guelzo.

This powerful 10-part historical documentary explores the complex origins of Philadelphia and the United States, and the enduring tensions around liberty, equality, and democracy that continue to shape the nation today.

Director: Andrew Ferrett
Writer: Nathaniel Popkin
Executive Producer: Sam Katz
Producers: Wendy Cox, Andrew Ferrett, Jonathan Kohl, Nathaniel Popkin, Eva Roben
Editor: Rachel Sophia Stewart
Director of Photography: Paul Van Haute
Narrator: Michael Boatman
Composer: Daniel Slatkin

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Sisters In Freedom: The Women Who Dared to Fight Slavery

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-02-12 | Sisters in Freedom tells the story for the first time of pioneering black and white women in the 1830s who defy social, economic, and cultural norms to come together to agitate against slavery, white supremacy, and inequality of race and gender. The film reveals how the resistance work of these pioneering women leads directly to the meeting at Seneca Falls and the launch of American feminism.

AWARDS:
Mid-Atlantic Emmy Best Documentary (2019)
Mid-Atlantic Emmy Best original score (2019)
Mid-Atlantic Emmy Best Audio Production (2019)
Mid-Atlantic Emmy Best photography (2019)

IN PURSUIT: Philadelphia and the Making of America documentary trailer

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-02-04 | From America’s birthplace comes a sweeping American history documentary about the promise and limits of a self-governing democracy. In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America explores the nation’s past, present, and future through the story of Philadelphia, the city where American democracy was born.

This multi-part documentary series spans centuries of United States history, examining politics, culture, race, labor, and civic life through ten hour-long episodes releasing throughout 2026. The series connects Philadelphia’s history to the urgent questions shaping America today, from democracy and citizenship to inequality and social change.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Andrew Ferrett and written by author Nathaniel Popkin, In Pursuit is produced by Sam Katz, recipient of the 2021 Library of Congress / Ken Burns Prize for Film.

Narrated by acclaimed actor Michael Boatman and featuring an original score by internationally recognized composer Daniel Slatkin, In Pursuit is a Philadelphia history documentary series and a definitive exploration of American democracy, past and present.

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Episode 1 Trailer | In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-02-04 | The first episode of the epic ten-part series IN PURSUIT explores the early history of colonial Philadelphia and American democracy, beginning with the Lenape indigenous people of the Mid-Atlantic region. In England, Quaker dissidents challenge the authority of the King, and face fierce retribution. As European colonization brings displacement and disease to the Lenape homeland, William Penn arrives with a revolutionary promise of religious freedom and coexistence. But in a colony already being shaped by slavery, can the ideals of toleration take root?

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Cecils People: The Freedom Fighters

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-02-04 | In 1965, youth members of the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP rallied under the leadership of lawyer and civil rights activist Cecil B. Moore to join the fight to desegregate Girard College. Fifty years later, four members of the Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters, “Cecil's People,” recount their seven-month stand through story and song.

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AWARDS
Mid-Atlantic Emmy Best Cultural Program - Special (2015, 2016)

Before Hollywood: Philadelphia and the Birth of the Movies

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-02-03 | Before Hollywood traces the history of cinema to a collection of factories and workshops in 18th and 19th-century Philadelphia. Opening in the 1970s with Garrett Brown, whose Steadicam reinvented cinematography, the film discovers the source of the moving picture in the studio of Founding Father Charles Willson Peale. Before Hollywood pulls back the curtain on a vital new chapter in motion picture history.

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AWARDS
Mid-Atlantic Regional emmy awards
Best Documentary (2018)
Best Editing (2018)
Best original music (2018)

Urban Trinity: The Story of Catholic Philadelphia

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2026-02-03 | Urban Trinity explores the dramatic history of Roman Catholicism in the first American city to promote religious tolerance, Philadelphia. From the desperate refugees of the 18th century to the immigrants who fought to preserve their ethnic traditions to the violent reaction of nativists, Urban Trinity examines how the promise of America was proven and challenged on city streets.

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Corrupt (1920-1940) - Philadelphia: The Great Experiment

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2019-09-27 | In the 1920's, Philadelphia was America's third largest city, with nearly two million residents. Philadelphians worked in factories that ran around the clock, flocked to speakeasies serving illegal liquor, and had plans for an elegant Parkway to celebrate urban greatness. But in every neighborhood, an entrenched system of domination by political bosses called the shots and reaped private financial rewards. It was the empire of the Vares - the family more powerful than any Mayor with a vice grip on Philadelphia's destiny. How will the city survive the grip of the Vares and what will happen when the Great Depression brings the roaring 20's to a crashing end?

Executive Producer: Sam Katz
Directed by Andrew Ferrett
Written by Nathaniel Popkin
Editor: Rachel Sophia Stewart
Associate Producer: Jonathan Kohl
Co-Producers: Andrew Ferrett and Nathaniel Popkin
Segment Producer: Wendy Cox
Director of Photography: Paul Van Haute
Original Music by Patrick De Caumette
Sound Design: Dan La Porta
Creative Director: Virginia Lasco
Narration by Michael Boatman

South Street excerpt (Philadelphia The Great Experiment)

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Awakening: Annie Anderson Segment

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1920s South Street: Philadelphias Jazz Age

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2019-09-06 | In the 1920s and 30s, South and Lombard Streets in South Philadelphia were bastions of entertainment for the city's thriving black community. A trio of long-gone theaters - the Dunbar (later the Lincoln), the Standard, and the Royal Theatres hosted the likes of Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and countless black musicians and groups.

Awakening (1900-1920) - Philadelphia: The Great Experiment

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2019-04-11 | For free educational materials, visit our website at www.historymakingproductions.com/philadelphia-the-great-experiment

In 1900, Philadelphia welcomes the new century with a burst of energy. As immigrants flow in, they find a metropolis of smoke and machines making every product under the sun. But a political machine keeps thousands of children working in the factories, too. For newly arrived Europeans and Black migrants from the South, it will take genius and grit to bend the old lines of power. This episode carries the viewer on a tour de force of the booming city that launched a baseball dynasty, a skyscraper boom, and the voice of a generation.

Executive Producer: Sam Katz
Directed by Andrew Ferrett
Written by Nathaniel Popkin
Editor: Rachel Sophia Stewart
Associate Producer: Jonathan Kohl
Co-Producers: Andrew Ferrett and Nathaniel Popkin
Segment Producer: Wendy Cox
Director of Photography: Paul Van Haute
Original Music by Patrick De Caumette
Sound Design: Dan La Porta
Creative Director: Virginia Lasco
Narration by Michael Boatman

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Before Hollywood: Philadelphia and the Birth of the Movies [TRAILER]

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Before Hollywood: Garrett Brown and the Philadelphia Art Museum Steps

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2018-06-26 | Philadelphian and inventor of the steadicam, Garrett Brown, shares early memories of testing the steadicam and the choice of filming on those iconic museum steps.

World Stage (1872 - 1899) - Philadelphia: The Great Experiment

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2018-05-10 | For free educational materials, visit our website at www.historymakingproductions.com/philadelphia-the-great-experiment

Philadelphia celebrates the Centennial of the USA with a spectacular World's Fair in 1876. The merchant John Wanamaker captures the spirit of the times with his grand department store. He leads the effort to build a city within the city for the Fair, including the largest building in the world. As millions flock to the Centennial, it becomes a magnet for activists. Susan B. Anthony leads a group of women who disrupt the July 4th celebration at Independence Hall to advocate for women's right to vote. Educator Caroline LeCount presses for the inclusion of Black Philadelphians in the planning process. The city bristles with ambition and aspiration, which manifest in the plans for a towering new City Hall. But as construction of City Hall drags on for decades, John Wanamaker worries that the soaring city he imagined will fall under the influence of a corrupt political machine.

Executive Producer: Sam Katz
Directed by Andrew Ferrett
Written by Nathaniel Popkin
Co-Producers: Andrew Ferrett and Nathaniel Popkin
Segment Producer: Wendy Cox
Narrator: Michael Boatman
Editor: Rachel Sophia Stewart
Director of Photography: Paul Van Haute
Original Music by Patrick De Caumette
Associate Producer: Jonathan Kohl
Sound Design: Dan La Porta
Creative Director: Virginia Lasco
Casting Director: Cynthia Janzen
Costume Designer: Millie Hiibel
Production Designer: Lisa Groomes
Hair & Make-Up: April Chatman-Royce
Director of Education: Amy Cohen
Audio Director: Patrick De Caumette
Colorist: David Bauer
Illustrations: Fred Danziger

Peter Barberie on Early Photography in the United States

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Kathleen Foster on Thomas Eakins

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Octavius V. Catto, A Legacy for the 21st Century

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Mary Maples Dunn On William Penn

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City of Shadows

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2016-12-14 | Nineteenth-century gothic writers Edgar Allan Poe and George Lippard drew inspiration from the chaos and disorder of Philadelphia. "City of Shadows" explores the relationship these two artists had with their city.

Watch "Disorder (1820-1854)," the sixth installment of "Philadelphia: The Great Experiment" for free at HistoryOfPhilly.com

Directed by Andrew Ferrett
Edited by Annie Roge

Mass Celebrated By Pope Francis

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2016-11-21 | During a remarkable and magical week, Philadelphia hosted The World Meeting of Families, a six-day conference to celebrate and focus attention on the family, highlighted by the visit of Pope Francis. The theme of the meeting, "Love Is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive" was at the center of the World Meeting Congress sessions, events and the Holy Father's message. These films capture, document and preserve the highlights of this once-in-a-generation event, a historical moment that brought a nation, a region and a city together in faith and love.

Love Is Our Mission

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An Equal Chance (1855-1871) - Philadelphia: The Great Experiment

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2016-05-12 | For free educational materials, visit our website at www.historymakingproductions.com/philadelphia-the-great-experiment

The Civil War shatters neighborhood calm and brings old tensions to a boiling point. Philadelphia will be the powerhouse of the North: brimming with industrial muscle, scores of war hospitals, and thousands of troops. Citizens rally around President Lincoln's call that "all should have an equal chance." But with the war over and the President dead, the fight for equality becomes a battle in the streets - with tragic results.

History Making Productions presents
PHILADELPHIA THE GREAT EXPERIMENT
Episode 7: AN EQUAL CHANCE - 1855 - 1871

Executive Producer: Sam Katz
Directed by Andrew Ferrett
Produced by Wendy Cox
Written by Nathaniel Popkin & Andrew Ferrett
Narrator: Michael Boatman
Director of Photography: Paul Van Haute
Original Music by Patrick De Caumette
Editor: Rachel Sophia Stewart
Associate Producer: Jonathan Kohl
Sound Design: Dan La Porta
Co-Producer: Kathleen Kearney
Creative Director: Virginia Lasco
Casting Director: Cynthia Jantzen
Costume Designer: Millie Hiibel
Production Designer: Lisa Groomes
Hair & Make-Up: Krystal Tini
Fight Choreographer: Ian Rose
Colorist: Charles Bouril
Illustrations: Fred Danziger

Made possible through the generous support of:
Kay & Harry Halloran
Bonnie & Peter McCausland
Lisa Kabnick & John McFadden

An Equal Chance (1855-1871) 6abc Promo

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2016-04-27 | History Making Productions in partnership with 6abc present "An Equal Chance (1855-1871)," the seventh chronological installment of "Philadelphia: The Great Experiment."

Cecils People: The Freedom Fighters (Part 3)

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2016-02-19 | For free educational materials, visit our website at www.historymakingproductions.com/webisode

In 1965, youth members of Philadelphia's NAACP rallied under the leadership of Cecil B. Moore to desegregate Girard College. Originally founded in 1831 for white orphan boys, Girard College remained segregated until 1968, by which time it was enveloped in Philadelphia's fastest-growing and most thriving African American neighborhood. Fifty years later, four Freedom Fighters recount their struggle.

'Over the Wall' is the third and final installment of "Cecil's People: The Freedom Fighters". It was released on February 19th, 2016, at Cristo Rey High School in North Philadelphia, at a screening attended by the Freedom Fighters.

Disorder (1820 - 1854) - Philadelphia The Great Experiment

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2016-01-29 | For free educational materials, visit our website at www.historymakingproductions.com/philadelphia-the-great-experiment

In the decades before the Civil War, the city we know as Philadelphia was divided into 29 independent towns and districts. With no unified police, fire, or political authority, chaos ruled the streets. Riots over slavery, jobs, and religion became the norm during the most violent period in the city's history. See the dreamers attempting to hold on to the revolutionary past, the firebrands who challenge the city to rise up against slavery, and the mobs who threaten to destroy it all. Whose Philadelphia will survive?

History Making Productions presents
"PHILADELPHIA THE GREAT EXPERIMENT"
Episode 6: "DISORDER 1820 - 1854"

Executive Producer: Sam Katz
Directed by Andrew Ferrett
Produced by Wendy Cox
Written by Nathaniel Popkin, Andrew Ferrett, and Devon McReynolds
Narrator: Michael Boatman
Director of Photography: Paul Van Haute
Music Composed by Patrick De Caumette
Editor: Rachel Sophia Stewart
Sound Design: Dan La Porta
Associate Producer: Jonathan Kohl
Co-Producer: Kathleen Kearney
Creative Director: Virginia Lasco
Casting Director: Cynthia Jantzen
Costume Designer: Millie Hiibel
Production Designer: Lisa Groomes
Hair & Make-Up: Krystal Tini
Fight Choreographer: Ian Rose
Illustrations: Fred Danziger

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Kay & Harry Halloran
Bonnie & Peter McCausland
Lisa Kabnick & John McFadden

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Disorder: 1820 - 1854 Promo

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2016-01-25 | Premieres Thursday @ 7:30, only on 6abc

Fearless Leaders Feature: Marshall Goldsmith, Ph.D.

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2015-09-04 | Welcome to Fearless Leaders! Please enjoy our first feature segment, where our host, Dr. Cathy Greenberg, interviews Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith about his new book, Triggers.

Tasting Freedom: The Life of Octavius V. Catto

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2015-07-20 | Tasting Freedom: The Life of Octavius V. Catto

St John the Evangelist Church - WMOF 2015

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2015-07-07 | Visit St. John the Evagnelist - one of the city's first cathedrals, located at 13th St & Clover St.

C. Dallett Hemphill on Women in Philly

In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America 2015-07-07 | IN MEMORIAM: C. Dallett Hemphill

Philadelphia: The Great Experiment (Franklin's Spark)

How did women in colonial Philadelphia contribute to society most? Women's roles were mostly associated with the comforting domestic roles--but they also were involved in education and trade. Colonial Philadelphia thrived thanks to the help of the women who ran most day-to-day work under the guise of their husbands' ownership.

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