Comparing the Declaration of Independence's significance to Philadelphia could be likened to describing the Eiffel Tower's importance to Paris or the Colosseum's significance to Rome. Philadelphia is often referred to as the "Birthplace of America" due to its pivotal role in the founding of the ...
On April 11, 1913, recently inaugurated President Woodrow Wilson received Postmaster General Albert Burleson's plan to segregate the Railway Mail Service. Burleson reported that he found it “intolerable” that white and Black employees had to work together and share drinking glasses and washro ...
Chauncey Goodrich (富善) came to China in 1865 and served there for 60 years. In 1890, he became a member of the Union Bible Translation Committee. Goodrich was the only original member still on the committee when the much-heralded translation was completed 29 years later. He passed into Heaven ...
Merchant and philanthropist Nathan Dunn (1782–1844) founded the Chinese Museum in Philadelphia in 1838. Located at Ninth and George (now Sansom) Streets , it housed the collection of art and artifacts Dunn had amassed during visits to Canton, China, between 1818 and 1831. https://phil ...
George Henry Hubbard 中国传教40年 (1885-1925) https://archives.yale.edu/agents/people/66865 https://dmorinsite.wordpress.com/george-henry-hubbard/ https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Hubbard%2C%20George%20Henry%2C%201857%2D