Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, July 10th, 1844, troops withdraw from Philadelphia following riots, the second

in a series of riots over the previous few months.

These riots had left 15 dead and about 50 people injured.

They'd kind of popped up in the wake of the Independence Day celebrations a week

earlier around July 4th and the violence intention was wrapped up in some of those questions

about Americanism immigration patriotism religion as we'll discuss this is part of a

moment when nativism is springing back up along many of those lines. The

violence itself, thousands of troops in the streets, guns and cannon fire on

both sides, as I said dozens wounded and killed.

So here to discuss nativism, the riots in Philadelphia,

the summer of 1844, are as always

Nicole Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.

Hello there. Hello Jesley. Hello there.

Hello Jody.

Hey there.

So before we get to Philadelphia and this moment,

I just wanted to say like, I happen to be looking at the episodes we're doing and I sometimes try and notice patterns and sort of dates and so forth and the

next three episodes including this and that we're doing are all in the like 1840s

1850s I feel like we've done those that era a fair amount lately and you know I think

listeners know we don't really like we jump around on purpose we try and mix it up

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