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Philadelphia\u27s Fincher\u27s Trades\u27 Review: Labor, War, and History
No full textPhiladelphia has always had a rich working-class tradition and it seems appropriate that it was home to one of the nation\u27s largest and most progressive labor newspapers during the Civil War. Published by machinist Jonathan C. Fincher, the first issue of Fincher\u27s Trades\u27 Review appeared on June 6, 1863, and the paper continued to report on both labor and the war through 1866
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography vol. 135, number 4, October 2011
No full textFull Issue focused on Pennsylvania and the American Civil Wa
With a Little Help from the Friends: The Quaker and Tactical Contexts of Anthony Benezet\u27s Abolitionist Publishing
Get PDFON THE MORNING OF NOVEMBER 14, 1766, some Philadelphia Quakers hastened to prepare a parcel to put in the hands of John Griffith, a traveling minister who was about to board a ship that day and return to England. Griffith had arrived in Philadelphia in September 1765, and over the next year he visited Quaker meetings up and down the Atlantic seaboard from North Carolina to New Hampshire, taking their spiritual pulse, preaching the gospel, and calling for a revival of vital piety among Friends. By September 1766 he felt that his work was finished, and so he informed the ministers and elders of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting on the twenty-seventh of that month of his desire to return home. Three men were duly appointed to write a certificate for Griffith "Expressive of Our Unity with his Gospel Labours among us," one of whom was Anthony Benezet, the schoolmaster, reformer, and pamphleteer. Benezet was attending the Yearly Meeting as a representative of the Burlington (New Jersey) Quarterly Meeting along with his friends John Smith, a councilor in New Jersey\u27s royal government, and John Woolman, the pioneering antislavery reformer, among others. Certificate in hand, Griffith learned that the ship Phoebe would shortly be departing for London, and so he booked passage aboard her and arrived at Dartmouth, England, on Christmas Day after a six-week voyage
Women of Industry and Reform: Shaping the History of Pennsylvania, 1865–1940. By Marion W. Roydhouse
Get PDFFrequently Pennsylvania history is a tale of two cities: Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. In contrast with this limited perspective, in Women of Industry and Reform Marion Roydhouse presents a statewide analysis of the recent literature on Pennsylvania women. Examining the public and private lives of Pennsylvania women from 1865 to 1940, she includes the voices of women from rural and urban areas, women who worked in heavy industry and light manufacturing, as well as working-class labor organizers and middle-class reformers. The words and thoughts of individual women illuminate and humanize this study
A Town In-Between: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior. By Judith Ridner
Get PDFThe literature on Pennsylvania during the colonial and early national periods has become increasingly abundant in recent years, but it has concentrated on southeastern Pennsylvania, particularly Philadelphia. Because it focuses on a town in the backcountry, Judith Ridner\u27s A Town In-Between: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior is a welcome addition to the historiography of Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century. According to Ridner, Carlisle\u27s geographic location along the frontier—both east/west within Pennsylvania and north/south in the mid-Atlantic—led to it becoming a placewhere residents faced the typical challenges of life in the backcountry along with the opportunities available to settlers who ventured into the hinterland
Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic. By Susan Branson
Get PDFIn Dangerous to Know,Susan Branson presents the fascinating story of Ann Carson and the author who documented her extraordinary tale, Mary Clark. Born of middle-class parents, Carson experienced the challenges associated with maintaining that identity in the tumultuous economy of the early republic. When her father fell ill and could no longer work, the family was subject to eviction. Carson struck out on her own, opening a china shop while clinging to her middling status. She married John Carson, a sea captain, drunk, and abusive spouse. One can only imagine Carson\u27s sigh of relief when John went missing for two years and was presumed dead. Carson, vulnerable as a single, working mother, decided to move on with her life and married Richard Smith. But John Carson wasn\u27t actually dead
Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History. By Akela Reason
Get PDFThomas Eakins created images of the past throughout his career. AkelaReason contends that Eakins valued these historical works as much or more than the paintings commonly regarded as his masterpieces (works such as The Champion Single Sculls [1871] and The Gross Clinic [1875]), and that through his historical works Eakins sought to showcase his professional beliefs, to link his work to the great art of the past, and to establish his artistic legacy
Preserving Pennsylvania\u27s Civil War Muster Roles
No full textThe Pennsylvania State Archives maintains all of the records created by the regimental units raised by the commonwealth during the Civil War. Unit holdings include muster in and muster out rolls, casualty and deserter lists, official communications, and other records. Most valued among these are the mustering out rolls, which briefly give each soldier\u27s war story at his time of discharge and, in many cases, beyond it. They are, as historian John B. B. Trussell has noted, "essential for the study" of any regiment\u27s or company\u27s actions during the war. In October 2005, the State Archives began an ambitious project to conserve the 2,500 muster out rolls that are part of Records Series 19.11, "Muster Rolls and Related Records" of the Adjutant General\u27s Office
The Sixth Pennsylvania Calvary "Lancers" Monumnet
Get PDFVisitors to the Gettysburg National Military Park who venture down Emmitsburg Road to South Cavalry Field will discover a cluster of commonly overlooked monuments. Nearly lost in the midst of the Battlefield RV Sales Lot and a nearby "Battlefield"-themed resort stands the haunting and evocative battle monument that honors the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, known as "Rush\u27s Lancers.