Background
IV, John Henry Hepp, was born on October 21, 1959 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Henry Hepp, III and Rose Hunt Hepp.
( The classic historical interpretation of the late ninet...)
The classic historical interpretation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America sees this period as a political search for order by the middle class, culminating in Progressive Era reforms. In The Middle-Class City, John Hepp examines transformations in everyday middle-class life in Philadelphia between 1876 and 1926 to discover the cultural roots of this search for order. By looking at complex relationships among members of that city's middle class and three largely bourgeois commercial institutions—newspapers, department stores, and railroads—Hepp finds that the men and women of the middle class consistently reordered their world along rational lines. According to Hepp, this period was rife with evidence of creative reorganization that served to mold middle-class life. The department store was more than just an expanded dry goods emporium; it was a middle-class haven of order in the heart of a frenetic city—an entirely new way of organizing merchandise for sale. Redesigned newspapers brought well-ordered news and entertainment to middle-class homes and also carried retail advertisements to entice consumers downtown via train and streetcar. The complex interiors of urban railroad stations reflected a rationalization of space, and rail schedules embodied the modernized specialization of standard time. In his fascinating investigation of similar patterns of behavior among commercial institutions, Hepp exposes an important intersection between the histories of the city and the middle class. In his careful reconstruction of this now vanished culture, Hepp examines a wide variety of sources, including diaries and memoirs left by middle-class women and men of the region. Following Philadelphians as they rode trains and trolleys, read newspapers, and shopped at department stores, he uses their accounts as individualized guidebooks to middle-class life in the metropolis. And through a creative use of photographs, floor plans, maps, and material culture, The Middle-Class City helps to reconstruct the physical settings of these enterprises and recreate everyday middle-class life, shedding new light on an underanalyzed historical group and the cultural history of twentieth-century America.
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IV, John Henry Hepp, was born on October 21, 1959 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Henry Hepp, III and Rose Hunt Hepp.
Bachelor, Temple University, 1982. Juris Doctor, University of Pennsylvania, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy in History, University of North Carolina, 1997.
Attorney Dechert Price and Rhoads, Philadelphia, 1986—1991. Lecturer University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1998—1999. Assistant professor Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1999—2005, associate professor, since 2005.
( The classic historical interpretation of the late ninet...)
Member of Urban History Association, Oral History Association, History Society Pennsylvania (editorial board since 2007), Pennsylvania History Association 2005-2009, (member council since 2007, editor since 2009), Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (member H-SHGAPE editorial board 1997—2000), American History Association, Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Phi Alpha Theta, Order of the Coif.
Married Julie Kay Benigni, December 29, 1984. 1 child John Henry V.