David R. Contosta, Ph.D., is Professor of History at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. From the fall of 1998 through the spring of 2000, Dr. Contosta was a Visiting Research Professor at Saint Joseph’s University, during which time he researched and wrote much of his sesquicentennial history of this institution. He is the author of 14 other books as well as numerous articles and reviews. His writings include biographies of Henry Adams and of the Houston/Woodward families, along with works on higher education, orphanages, urban and suburban history, architecture and landscape, urban parks, historic preservation, and a variety of topics in social, cultural, and intellectual history—many of them focusing on Philadelphia and Philadelphians.

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