Semiquincentennial Sampler
To mark the impending 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: a package of articles looking back to the Revolutionary War era on campus, examining the printing of the Declaration and highlighting Bicentennial dissent, and profiling the alumnus planning Philadelphia’s celebrations this year.
Bicentennial Flashback
The Gazette covers the Bicentennial.
Forever the First
Women’s basketball’s first Ivy championship.
Education on Display
The University’s contribution to the sesquicentennial.
Commemorating “Collegiate”
“Collegiate” is 100. “Rah! Rah! Rah!”
A Villa in the City
A new oldest Penn building.
“A Peaceful Place”
Back to the garden.
Revolution at Penn?
Present at the Revolution.
Meeting Danger with Courage and Grace
Medical mobilization, March 2020.
A Leader Among Women
Remembering the first woman to win an Alumni Award of Merit.
Quaker Spirit, Then and Now
Birth of the Quaker?
From Treasured to Traitor
Rev. Jacob Duché C1757 G1760’s unwelcome advice.
Renaissance Man Recaptured
“Red and Blue” composer William J. Goeckel C1895 L1896 honored.
Alvin and the Gold Medals
Penn’s Paris Olympics triumph (in 1900).
A Youthful Spirit
Old Penn | “Young Franklin” at 110.
“The Dark Day”
Looking back at the solar eclipse of 1869.
Palestra Pandemonium
1988 upset: Penn 71–Villanova 70.
Teaching the Teachers
Playground fun at the old Illman-Carter School.
Penn History on Tour
A new tour of early Penn from the Class of 1968.
“On This Hilltop”
Old Penn | “A home of beauty-loving people.”
Hippie Splendor
College Green, April 1973.
Pine Alpha
The Penn Museum’s piece of a 4,000-year-old conifer.
The Leader of the Band Before the Band
Francis Johnson
The Second Chance Game
Football’s timeless win.