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Pennsylvania histories : two hundred years of personalities and events, 1750-1950
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Pennsylvania Histories examines the state's history over two hundred years through the study of a number of somewhat obscure yet significant individuals and events. The narrative often confronts is...
Pennsylvania Histories examines the state's history over two hundred years through the study of a number of somewhat obscure yet significant individuals and events. The narrative often confronts issues pertaining to ethnicity, gender, and the social class structure.
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- Creator
- Sheldon Spear
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, Maryland : Lehigh University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781611462081, 1611462088, 1611462096, 161146207X
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Benjamin A. Bidlack: unknown diplomat -- George Washington Woodward: Pennsylvania Copperhead -- Terence V. Powderly: Knight of Labor -- Frank P. Slattery, Jr.: municipal reformer -- Congressman Daniel J. Flood: anthracite warrior -- Northeastern Pennsylvania in American history -- The Moravians: Pennsylvania Dutch missionaries -- French and British refugees on the Susquehanna -- Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin: pioneer priest of the Alleghenies -- Thomas Cooper: a radical for all seasons -- The origins of Lackawanna County -- Jane Grey Swisshelm: pioneer female journalist -- The burning of Chambersburg: a Civil War event -- The Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia -- Henry Ossawa Tanner: expatriate Philadelphia painter -- Pennsylvania social history: a glimpse of Pittsburgh (1880-1918) -- From double hanging to double hanging: semi-public executions in Wilkes-Barre and Tunkhannock, 1893-1909 -- John O'Hara: the Pottsville connection -- The Whiz Kids and the Bums: the National League pennant race of 1950 -- Pennsylvania children in the age of anthracite -- The origins of Pennsylvania place names