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Robert Morris’s Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder
No full textBook Review of "Robert Morris’s Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder" By RYAN K. SMITH
Building the Beloved Community: Philadelphia\u27s Interracial Civil Rights Organizations and Race Relations, 1930–1970
No full textBook Review for "Building the Beloved Community: Philadelphia\u27s Interracial Civil Rights Organizations and Race Relations, 1930–1970" by Stanley Keith Arnol
Becoming Penn: The Pragmatic American University, 1950–2000
No full textThis is a book review for the April 2016 issue of Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Idealizing an Organic Landscape: J. I. Rodale, the Rodale Press, and the Pennsylvania Countryside
Full text linkThe cover of the New York Times Magazine on June 6, 1971, featured a photo of a seventy-two-year-old man in a dark suit and tie walking along the edge of the rich red-brown soils of a freshly plowed Pennsylvania farm feld. Chronicling the growing popularity of organic food, the article’s author described this gray-haired man with a bushy beard and dark glasses as the “guru” of a movement to transform the production and consumption of food in the United States. However, this organic “prophet” cut a peculiar fgure against the pastoral Pennsylvania landscape. Neither a farmer nor a scientist, he was a layman who hadoperated a manufacturing frm while also devoting his energy to convincing Americans that their health was bound to the soil and the quality of the food it produced. A publisher who had made millions on his contentious health claims, he had rarely worked with his own hands in the fertile soils that surrounded him
Houses No Warmer than Barns: Peter Kalm on Fireplaces and Firewood in Colonial Pennsylvania
Full text linkThe travel narrative of the Swedish-Finnish naturalist Peter Kalm (Pehr Kalm, 1716–79) is a familiar primary source for studies of colonial North America. This essay highlights Kalm’s comments on energy use in mid-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania and points to additional resources for Kalm’s observations of the Delaware Valley region
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No full textThis is the front matter for The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 140, No. 1, January 2016
From Peopling to Postethnic: Pennsylvania Pluralism Reconsidered
No full textNEWS ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND ethnicity is everywhere in 2016—in the current US presidential campaign, in the ongoing European refugee crisis, in the United Kingdom’s “Brexit” referendum, and even in Broadway musicals. Daily we are faced with public discussions about immigration and its attendant issues of ethnicity, religion, and race. Invariably, the anxieties underlying these discussions refl ect the enduring concerns of a diverse society: How and why do people migrate? How can receiving nations or localities best respond to the needs of displaced people? How are newcomers integrated into new or existing communities of settlement? In what ways do they transform these communities? How do people from different cultural backgrounds and identities coexist, interact, and fl ourish together, and on what terms
Tracing Filipino Philadelphia in the Pedro Supelana Papers
No full textIn April 1975, members of the Filipino Executive Council of Greater Philadelphia (FECGP) sent a petition to Mayor Frank Rizzo, expressing dismay that “Americans in Greater Philadelphia are not even aware that there are about 5,000 Filipinos who live among them.”1 Rizzo acted quickly to accommodate another group of potential voters, but, four decades later, historians have yet to catch up; Filipino migrants remain largely absent from Pennsylvania’s ethnic history. Anyone looking to redress that absence—or to learn more about Philadelphia’s ethnic politics between the 1960s and 1990s—would do well to consult the papers of Pedro Supelana at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP). This small but rich collection documents the public life of a Filipino American community leader, along with more than a dozen ethnic organizations
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No full textThis is the front matter for Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Volume 139, Number 1, January 2015, a special collaborative issue with Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies