Category: History
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The Case of Mistaken Identity and Researching African Americans at Penn Undergraduate researchers with the Penn & Slavery Project have… Continue Reading →
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Students from the South educated at Penn Medical School This list is excerpted from the full catalog of Penn Medical… Continue Reading →
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Benjamin Rush was one of the most important figures of the early medical school. As a distinguished physician in Philadelphia… Continue Reading →
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Josiah Clark Nott (1804-1873) graduated from Penn’s Medical School in 1827. Originally from Columbia, South Carolina. Nott later became a… Continue Reading →
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Dr. Samuel George Morton was a Penn alumnus and professor at the Medical School. In 1846, Josiah Nott (MD 1827)… Continue Reading →
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Dr. Charles Caldwell, who graduated with his medical degree in 1796 also rose to prominence in the American School. His… Continue Reading →
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Penn began operating as an academy or secondary school in 1751 and obtained its collegiate charter in 1755. 1750 appears… Continue Reading →
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The Quadrangle Dormitory nicknamed “The Quad”, consists of 3 Residential Houses: Riepe, Ware, and Fisher Hassenfeld. This was the first… Continue Reading →
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