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No full textThis is the front matter for The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 140, No. 2, April 2016
America’s First Chaplain: The Life and Times of Reverend Jacob Duché
No full textThis is a book review for the April 2016 issue of Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
The Long Shadow of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and: Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration among Civil War Veterans
No full textThis is a book review for the April 2016 issue of Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Mourning Lincoln
No full textThis is a book review for the April 2016 issue of Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia’s Chinatown: Space, Place, and Struggle
No full textThis is a book review for the April 2016 issue of Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Back Matter
No full textThis is the back matter for the October 2016 issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Making History: Antiquarian Culture in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Full text linkIN 1857, BENSON LOSSING thanked John Fanning Watson for his “suggestions respecting local inquiries,” adding “I am more and more surprised, as I daily look into the reminisces [sic] of the past, at the total apathy of our citizens in regard to historical facts of great interest to all, with which our city abounds. The men and women of the Revolution have almost all departed from among us, yet I occasionally meet one whose recollection is exceedingly clear. From them I glean all that can be got, and hope to add a mite to your most valuable store.” Lossing (1813–91), based in Poughkeepsie, New York, was a key figure in the generation of antiquarians that included Philadelphia’s renowned chronicler John Fanning Watson (1779–1860). Along with John A. McAllister (1822–96), Ferdinand Dreer (1812–1902), Edward Ingraham (1793–1854), Edwin Greble (1806–83), and Frank Marx Etting (1833–90) of Philadelphia, as well as Brantz Mayer (1809–79) of Baltimore, Lossing was among those mid-nineteenth-century collectors who exchanged, discussed, accumulated, published, borrowed, sold, and donated an array of documents, prints and, occasionally, relics related to colonial and early national America. In seeking out the recollections of descendants, images of original building construction, and artists’ “good likenesses” taken directly from national fi gures, their interests and methods helped determine what information from the past was saved. These antiquarians’ preservation and collecting activities played a role in defining and emphasizing what elements of Philadelphia’s past were important, both at the time and in future decades
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No full textThis is the front matter for Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 139, No. 3, October 201
Editorial
Full text linkThe history of Pennsylvania is inextricably linked to the history of energy—from the forests and waters of Penn Woods, to the anthracite and bituminous coal felds of the northeast and southwest corners of the state, to the natural gas trapped in the state’s Marcellus Shale formation. Today, Texas may be the nation’s leading energy producer, but it was Pennsylvania energy that powered much of America’s industrial revolution. In the twenty-frst century, energy production and consumption remain central to the state’s economy. Over the last few years, according to the US Energy Information Agency, Pennsylvania has been the second-largest producer of natural gas and nuclear energy in the nation and the fourth-largest producer of electricity and coal (as well as the only state that mines higher heat– producing anthracite). Nationally, Pennsylvania is ranked third in total energy production. It is also, unfortunately, ranked third in total carbon dioxide emissions
Review Essay: Energy in Pennsylvania History
Full text linkEnergy represents a lens through which some of the most unique and compelling insights about human life in the commonwealthmay be viewed. Every type of American prime mover—the power to do work—has been harvested and used in Pennsylvania and, in the process of its use and management, has defned entire regions of the state. Exciting new scholarship—as well as new readings of existing literature—is teaching us much about this important history while also pointing us to promising areas for future inquiry