First City
With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America''s collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn''s "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were drafted and signed in ...
With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America''s collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn''s "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were drafted and signed in ...
