Ralph’s Italian Restaurant, located at 760 S. Ninth St. in the heart of Philadelphia’s Italian Market, was dimly lit but bright with laughter when my boyfriend, Manny Nkrumah ’26 and I visited for...
Just seven miles from campus lies arguably one of the most important sites in American history: Independence Hall. Just a few weeks ago, on a cold, windy afternoon, I and some classmates in John Morton’s,...
A photograph of a track meet at St. Joe’s offers a glimpse of track in the 1970s, showing five runners racing toward a chest-high white string stretched across the track.
It’s not clear who won...
In the mid-nineteenth century, if a scientist were in a pharmacy lab and accidentally ingested a poison, they might have reached for a can of emetine.
William Procter Jr., one of the founders of the...
As a historian, I am always interested in significant dates — and we are now a century removed from the death of Florence Harding (Nov. 21, 1924), as well as 15 years from the publication of my biography...
In 1702 prominent English physician Dr. Richard Mead published “A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays,” a book that laid the groundwork for the future of the field of toxicology.
“A...
Underneath the plethora of festivities, Thanksgiving is inherently an occasion of contradictions. It is a day for communities to gather together, punctuated by distractions of food and football. It is...
Barbelin Hall, or Barb as it is affectionately known on Hawk Hill, was the first building on St. Joe’s new-at-the-time City Avenue campus in the late 1920s.
The university was originally located...
The debate is over. The conservationists won, and the damming of Hetch Hetchy will move forward. That was the result of a recent Reacting to the Past game in Jeffrey Hyson’s, Ph.D., assistant professor...
In 1998, former SJU Cheerleading head coach Lisa Moroski ’85 took both the coed and women’s teams to Daytona Beach, Florida, to compete at the National Cheerleading Association (NCA) College Championship...
Sophiatown, South Africa – Behind a white cement wall splashed with a colorful mural, a brick house on Toby Street in the Johannesburg suburb of Sophiatown tells the story of resilience.
The house,...
Durban, South Africa – When Selvan Naidoo takes visitors on a tour of the 1860 Heritage Centre in Durban, which he directs, he recounts a story about searching archives for information about his ancestors.
In...
