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AFSCME\u27s Philadelphia Story: Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century. By FRANCIS RYAN
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Full Issue: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, October 2012
No full textFull fourth quarter issue includes Volume 136 contents and full index
A Cunning Man\u27s Legacy: The Papers of Samuel Wallis (1736–1798)
No full textONE SEARCHES FOR AN ADEQUATE identification of Samuel Wallis: birthright Quaker, aspiring merchant, bankrupt, debt collector, agent, partner, surveyor, pioneer settler on the Pennsylvania frontier, land speculator, unyielding combatant, spy, con-spirator, lay judge. All of these labels are at least partially accurate, but none of them completely captures a complicated and elusive figure whose contemporaries found him a puzzling personality, even as they repeatedly turned to him for help. Robert Morris, lodged in debtors\u27 prison at the time of Wallis\u27s death in 1798, condemned him for malice and duplicity, as also, in more guarded terms, did John Battin, Wallis\u27s upstate Pennsylvania neighbor and fellow Quaker, who had written to Wallis two years earlier, during a controversy pending between them about title to land: "I acknowledge thou art a very Cunning man, but I believe thee will find thee has been too Cunning for thy Self in these matters.
Forgetting Freedom: White Anxiety, Black Presence, and Gradual Abolition in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, 1780–1838
Get PDFSHORTLY AFTER ARRIVING in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1801, newlyappointed state supreme court judge Hugh Henry Brackenridge satdown to finish the sequel to his lengthy and peripatetic satire on thedangers of popular democracy, Modern Chivalry. As in the work\u27s earlierinstallments, it followed the quixotic adventures of the educated and virtuousCaptain John Farrago and his naïve "bog-trotting" servant, TeagueO\u27Regan—the former symbolic of thoughtful republican citizenship, thelatter of the recently enfranchised, unlettered voter who elected unqualifiedmen to high station. Yet Brackenridge offered more than a lesson onrepublican citizenship. As John Wood Sweet, Matthew Frye Jacobson,and others have shown, Modern Chivalry had a much broader ambit. Hadthey the opportunity to read it, Brackenridge\u27s Cumberland Countyneighbors might have found neatly summarized in the text\u27s later pagestheir own struggle to define citizenship in the age of emancipation
Architecture and Landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans, 1720–1920. Edited by SALLY MCMURRY and NANCY VAN DOLSEN
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Get PDFReview of both:Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania. By GEORGE E. THOMAS, with PATRICIA LIKOS RICCI, RICHARD J. WEBSTER, LAWRENCE M. NEWMAN, ROBERT JANOSOV, and BRUCE THOMASBuildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. By LU DONNELLY, H. DAVID BRUMBLE IV, and FRANKLIN TOKE
