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No full textTHOMAS, with RICCI et al., Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, by David Schuyler; andDONNELLY,BRUMBLE, and TOKER, Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, by David Schuyler HOFSTRA, ed., Ulster to America: The scos-Irish Migration Experience, 1680–1830, by Howard KeeleySUNDUE, Industrious in Their Stations: Young People at Work in Urban America, 1720–1810, by James D. SchmidtSADOSKY, Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America, by Laura Keenan Spero INGRAM, Indians and British Outposts in Eighteenth-Century America, by Timothy J. Shannon ROZBICKI, Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution, by Sandra Moats DULL, Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution, by Christopher PearlNAGY, Spies in the Continental Capital: Espionage across Pennsylvania during the American Revolution, by Robert F. Smith HAULMAN, The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America, by Ellen Hartigan-O\u27ConnorBELLION, Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America, by Whitney A. MartinkoGOLDSTEIN, Stephen Girard\u27s Trade with China, 1787–1824: The Norms versus the Profits of Trade, by Brenna O\u27Rourke HollandCOOPERMAN and SHERK, William Birch: Picturing the American Scene, by Anna O. MarleyHAYNES, Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in a British World, by Elizabeth Kelly GrayTOMEK, Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania, by Erica Armstrong DunbarMARTEN, Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America, by J. Adam RogersMELLON, The Judge: A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune, by Oliver BatemanECKHARDT, So Bravely and So Well: The Life of William T. Trego, by Mark ThistlethwaiteMAY and MAY, Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art, by Patricia Likos RicciFINLEY,GLASCO, and TROTTER, Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History, by Nicole R. Fleetwoo
Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America. By JAMES MARTEN
Get PDFJohn McMillan\u27s Journal: Presbyterian Sacramental Occasions and the Second Great Awakening
Get PDFJohn McMillan (1752–1833) was an industrious Presbyterian official who moved to the Pennsylvania backcountry during the revolutionary era, and his journal helps us understand an important Presbyterian prac-tice during those days: the sacramental gathering. McMillan was known for his leadership in churches, presbyteries, ministerial education, revival-ism, war, and politics. The son of immigrants from northern Ireland, McMillan was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. After receiving a Presbyterian revivalist education (which included a stint at the College of New Jersey), he moved west over the Allegheny Mountains to Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he arrived in 1776 to pastor two congregations, Chartiers Creek and Pigeon Creek. McMillan and several Presbyterian ministers who moved to that area formed presbyter-ies and educational institutions that trained frontier ministers and created ministerial networks for cooperative endeavors
Buried in Plain Sight: Indian "Curiosities" in Du Simitière\u27s American Museum
Get PDFSometimes the most interesting items in an archive are those that point to what is missing. While perusing a box in the Pierre Eugène du Simitière Collection at the Library Company of Philadelphia, I came across a remarkable document that illustrates a number of losses—both archival and personal.In July 1782, Du Simitière received a human scalp from the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council, along with an explanation of its provenance. As Du Simitière noted in his records of "curiosities" and their donors, the scalp was "taken from an Indian killed . . . in Washington County near the Ohio in this State by Adam Poe . . . it has as an ornament a white wampum bead a finger long with a Silver Knob at the end the rest of the hair plaited and tyed with deer skin."In the archive, I had located the original account of the battle on the banks of the Ohio that had resulted in the death of the anonymous Indian man. What I could not locate, however, was the scalp itself, long gon
Fort Rice
Get PDFFort Rice was a small Revolutionary War stronghold built between 1779 and 1780 by the German Regiment of Maryland and Pennsylvania, the first ethnically based unit in the American military. The fort was built to protect the inhabitants of Northumberland County from Native American and British attacks. Regulars of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment had been stationed loosely throughout the area to bolster the defense provided by the unreliable militia of the county, but they were called up to join Major General John Sullivan\u27s campaign in 1779. In July of that year, while the Continental soldiers were gone, the area\u27s wooden fort—Fort Freeland—was burned after a war party surrounded it and forced the people inside to surrender. As a response to the increased violence, the German Regiment was sent in to reinforce the militia and to rebuild two different fortifications, one of which was Fort Rice. Bloodshed on this central Pennsylvania frontier affected all settlers, no matter their distance from the Continental and British armies; the construction of Fort Rice, the only limestone fortification built, demonstrated that these people were determined to live in the area despite constant attack by their enemies
The Evolution of Leadership within the Puerto Rican Community of Philadelphia, 1950s-1970s
Get PDFIn his article "From Pan-Latino Enclaves to a Community: PuertoRicans in Philadelphia, 1910–2000," Víctor Vázquez-Hernándezdescribes an event in 1953 that signified the first public recognitionof Philadelphia\u27s growing Puerto Rican population—a riot in the SpringGarden section of the city This incident prompted the city government,through the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR), toconduct its first study of Philadelphia\u27s Puerto Rican community. To facilitatethis study, the city turned to prominent individuals within the PuertoRican community to help lift the veil on this rapidly growing ethnicgroup
PMHB 136(2) frontmatter
No full textPennsylvania Magazie of History and Biography, volume 136, number 2, April 2012 frontmatter: articles, book reviews, contributors, credits, and contact information
Damon and Pythias Reconsidered
Get PDFTO STUDENTS OF PHILADELPHIA\u27S POLITICAL HISTORY, the namesDamon and Pythias mean only one pair of politicians: Joseph SillClark Jr. and Richardson Dilworth, the men who inaugurated thecurrent era of Democratic rule in Philadelphia. Although they had beenpolitically active for nearly two decades, their names were relativelyunknown in the Quaker City until Dilworth splashed onto the frontpages in 1947 and declared virtual war on the rapacious Republicanorganization that had held sway in Philadelphia since the Civil War
