Join us at Philadelphia’s St. Augustine’s Catholic Church for a special screening of Episode 5 of the documentary “In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America.” Following the screening, Dr. David Krueger (Dialogue Institute) will facilitate a conversation with Father Chris Drennen (St. Augustine’s Catholic Church), Rev. Bill Wilson (Historic St. George’s United Methodist Church), and Dr. Katie Oxx, associate professor of St. Joseph’s Unviersity.

Episode 5 of “In Pursuit” is titled “America” and covers the tumultuous time period of 1838-1876.

Irish Catholic immigrants escaping bitter poverty and subjugation jam into new neighborhoods on the city’s edge. Conflict emerges in a new, Philadelphia-led American institution created to save the republic: the public school. As churches burn, slavecatchers patrol Philadelphia’s streets, and capitalists pour everything into a maturing technology, the railroad. What version of America will emerge from civil war?

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