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The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America. Edited by CHRIS BENEKE and CHRISTOPHER S. GRENDA.
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Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History. By CHERYL FINLEY, LAURENCE GLASCO, and JOE W. TROTTER
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No full textCall for Papers--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and PEnnsylvania History--Special Issue: Teaching Pennsylvania History (fall 2014)St. Peter\u27s Church: Faith in Action for 250 Years, by Cordelia Frances Biddle, Elizabeth S. Browne, ALan J. Heavens, and Charles Peitz (Temple University Press)The Contagious City: The Politics of PUblic Health in Early Philadelphia, by Simon Finger (Cornell University Press
Rev. John Elder and Identity in the Pennsylvania Backcountry
Get PDFWhile scholars have often cited the letters of the Reverend John Elder, housed in the archives of the Historical Society of Dauphin County, for information concerning the political atmosphere in the Pennsylvania backcountry during and immediately after the French and Indian War, few historians have taken notice of the clues that Elder\u27s letters provide regarding the complicated nature of identity in the region
A Failed Peace: The Friendly Association and the Pennsylvania Backcountry during the Seven Years\u27 War
Get PDFScholars interested the complex, violent, and ultimately tragic relations between native peoples and colonists in eighteenth-century America could do worse than to examine the Friendly Association Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The Friendly Association was a Quaker organization dedicated to ending Indian attacks on Pennsylvania\u27s frontier by addressing native grievances over the loss of Indian lands to colonization. The association, which operated from 1755 to 1764, was supported by wealthy Philadelphia Quakers, most notably Israel Pemberton. The documents found in the Friendly Association col-lection reflect the myriad and conflicting responses of Friends, settlers, government officials, and the region\u27s native inhabitants to the violence that engulfed Pennsylvania\u27s backcountry during the Seven Years\u27 War
Ezechiel Sangmeister\u27s Way of Life in Greater Pennsylvania
No full textThe Reformation ran headlong into the Enlightenment between the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. The most radical byproducts of sixteenth-century Europe\u27s religious reform movements settled in this colony hailed by Enlightenment thinkers as a beacon of toleration. Nothing probed the parameters of that toleration as pointedly as the celibate sect that established the Ephrata Cloister on the banks of Cocalico Creek. Leben und Wandel, the autobiography of Ezechiel Sangmeister, offers historians the most detailed perspective on the daily life and culture surrounding that community in Pennsylvania and flowing south down the Shenandoah
