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Full Issue: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 2012
No full textIncludes:WILLIAM PENN AND THE ORIGINS OF JUDICIAL TENURE DURING GOOD BEHAVIOR (Scott D. Gerber);THE AMBITIONS OF WILLIAM HENRY (Scott Paul Gordon);EXHIBIT REVIEW: HENRY OSSAWA TANNER: MODERN SPIRIT (Christopher Capozzola); and20 Book Reviews
John Harris, Historical Interpretation, and the Standing Stone Mystery Revealed
Get PDFIn the early spring of 1754, John Harris, operator of a trading post and ferry on the Susquehanna River, described for the provincial government two paths of travel through the Pennsylvania wilderness to the Native American village of Logs Town (present-day Ambridge) on the Ohio River. Titled "An Acct. of the Road to Logs Town on the Allegeheney River, Taken by John Harris, 1754," his sketch provides marvelous details of the natural and man-made features of backcountry Pennsylvania on the eve of the French and Indian War. Recorded as a deposition before Provincial Secretary Joseph Shippen, Harris\u27s description is one of several made for the government by frontier traders, among them Andrew Montour, Hugh Crawford, and Phillip Davies. But Harris\u27s deposition in particular would later cause historical confusion about the dimensions of one of the landscape features he listed—the Standing Stone
Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America. By DANIEL R. BIDDLE and MURRAY DUBIN
Get PDFTom Paine\u27s America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic. By SETH COTLAR
Get PDFLast to Leave the Field: The Life and Letters of First Sergeant Ambrose Henry Hayward, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Edited by TIMOTHY J. ORR
Get PDFSoldiers to Governors: Pennsylvania\u27s Civil War Veterans Who Became State Leaders. By RICHARD C. SAYLOR
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EXHIBIT REVIEW -- Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
Get PDFTHERE ARE ELEMENTS in the life story of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937) that sound almost like Hollywood stereotypes: a strict minister father forces his son to labor in a flour mill but can-not thwart the boy\u27s urgent wish to become a painter; a generous patron finances his flight from provincial America to cosmopolitan Paris, where he mingles with artists and contracts a near-fatal disease; success at the Paris Salon underwrites his marriage and a country house in Brittany; newer trends in painting bypass the frustrated and forgotten painter, who dies in relative obscurity
Little Britain Ledgers
Get PDFAn exciting view into the Pennsylvania backcountry can be found in the account ledgers and daybook of the Little Britain General Store, which are housed in the manuscript reading room at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Little Britain, located in central lower Pennsylvania, Lancaster County (modern-day Quarryville), was a hub of activity at the turn of the nineteenth century. Scots-Irish immigrant farmers founded Little Britain Township, and the general store most likely served an area within wagon distance; it was connected, however, to a much wider world