Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Fall 2025

Posted by on Dec 1, 2025 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Fall 2025 Topics in the Fall 2025 Newsletter: PHF Scholarship Fund Awards Selected PHF Welcomes New President Markosky PHF Recognizes President Fisher’s Service PHF Announces New Board Member Join Us on a Bucks County Adventure Fall-20250-PHF-Newsletter...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Fall 2024

Posted by on Nov 18, 2024 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Fall 2024 Topics in the Fall 2024 Newsletter: Essay Winners Announced for PHF’s New Scholarship Fund Be a Part of History – Volunteer PHF Announces New Board Member pah-fall-2024-PHFnewsletter...
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To Be Both a Negro and an American: W. E. B. DuBois and His Search for an African American Identity

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on To Be Both a Negro and an American: W. E. B. DuBois and His Search for an African American Identity What, after all, am I?” asked W.E.B. DuBois when he arrived in Philadelphia in 1897 to study the city’s black community. “Am I an American or am I a Negro? Can I be both? Or is it my duty to cease to be a Negro as soon as possible and be an American?” Not only did this tension characterize DuBois’ classic work, The Philadelphia Negro, published two years later in...
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