October 2009 (Vol. 133, No. 4)
Contributors
A Looking-Glass for Presbyterians: Recasting a Prejudice in Late Colonial Pennsylvania
by Benjamin Bankhurst
Notes and Documents: Political Influence in Philadelphia Judicial Appointments: Abraham L. Freedman's Account
by Isador Kranzel, with Eric Klinek
Notes and Documents: Elizabeth Kirkbride Gurney's Correspondence with Abraham Lincoln: The Quaker Dilemma
by Max L. Carter
A Roundtable Discussion of Gary Nash's The Urban Crucible
Still Irreplaceable after Thirty Years
by John M. Murrin
The Urban Crucible as Urban History
by Benjamin L. Carp
It's the Economy and Class, Stupid: A Retrospective on The Urban
Crucible
by Billy G. Smith
"Artisans" and the "Middling Sort" in Gary Nash's Eighteenth-Century
Urban America
by Simon Middleton
Another Urban Crucible: Gary Nash and the New Black Urbanism
by Richard S. Newman
Reflections on The Urban Crucible Commentaries
by Gary B. Nash
Book Reviews
Roeber, ed., Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America
by Richard W. Pointer
Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 3, Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748-1757
by Barbara Oberg
Loane, Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment
by Holly A. Mayer
Falk, Architecture and Artifacts of the Pennsylvania Germans: Constructing Identity in Early America
by Robert St. George
Wenger, A Country Storekeeper in Pennsylvania: Creating Economic Networks in Early America, 1790-1807
by Paul G. E. Clemens
Varon, Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
by Judith Giesberg
Silber, Gender and the Sectional Conflict
by Susan Hanket Brandt
Aronson, Nickelodeon City: Pittsburgh at the Movies, 1905-1929
by David Nasaw
July 2009 (Vol. 133, No. 3)
Contributors
Anxious Hospitality: Indian "Loitering" at Fort Allen, 1756-1761
by Daniel Ingram
A Common Law of Membership: Expulsion, Regulation, and Civil Society in the Early Republic
by Kevin Butterfield
Exhibit Review: A Common Canvas
by Eliza Jane Reilly
Book Reviews
Dorwart, Invasion and Insurrection: Security, Defense, and War in the Delaware Valley, 1621-1815
by Nathan Kozuskanich
Beiler, Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750
by Simone A. Wegge
Roberts and Roberts, Thomas Barclay (1728-1793): Consul in France, Diplomat in Barbary
by Christine E. Sears
Pangle, The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin
by Carla Mulford
Houston, Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement
by Shane Ralston
Brown, Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America
by Daniel Blake Smith
Fatherly, Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
by Mary Kelley
Rust, Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women
by Cynthia A. Kierner
Kaplan, Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship
by Matthew Hale
Haltman, Looking Close and Seeing Far: Samuel Seymour, Titian Ramsay Peale, and the Art of the Long Expedition, 1818-1823
by Patricia Tyson Stroud
McGoogan, Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane
by Robert S. Cox
Jeffrey, Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation
by Mitch Kachun
Lewis, Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields
by John H. M. Laslett
Slavishak, Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh
by Gregory L. Kaster
Warren, Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America
by Lance Metz
Moss and Crane, Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia
by George E. Thomas
Guenther, Sports in Pennsylvania
by Rich Westcott
McKee, The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia
by Michael B. Katz
April 2009 (Vol. 133, No. 2)
Contributors
Pennsylvania, the Militia, and the Second Amendment
by Nathan R. Kozuskanich
Federalist Decline and Despair on the Pennsyvanian Frontier: Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry
by Robert Battistini
"I shall speak in Philadelphia": Emma Goldman and the Free Speech League
by Bill Lynskey
Book Reviews
Slaughter, The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition
by Jean R. Soderlund
Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Phillip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America
by David Jaffee
Lockhart, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army
by Tom Fleming
Daughan, If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy—From the Revolution to the War of 1812
by Michael J. Crawford
Martin, Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-class Ideology, 1800-1860
by Patricia Dockman Anderson
Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
by Daniel Dupre
Wolensky and Keating, Tragedy at Avondale: The Causes, Consequences, and Legacy of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry's Most Deadly Mining Disaster, September 6, 1869
by Michael Knies
Healey, The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry, 1860-1902: Economic Cycles, Business Decision Making, and Regional Dynamics
by Kenneth C. Wolensky
Kuklick, Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine
by Anita L. Allen
January 2009 (Vol. 133, No. 1)
Contributors
The Lancaster County Cholera Epidemic of 1854 and the Challenge to the Miasma Theory of Disease
by John B. Osborne
Reconstructing Philadelphia: African Americans and the Politics of the Post-Civil War North
by Andrew Diemer
The Assimilation of German Immigrants into a Pennsylvania German Township, 1840-1900
by Robert F. Hueston
Notes and Documents: Newly Available and Processed Collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
by Eric Klinek and HSP Archives Staff
Book Reviews
Pencak, Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654-1800
by Leonard Dinnerstein
Eustace, Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution
by Richard Godbeer
Bric, Ireland, Philadelphia and the Re-Invention of America, 1760-1800
by Richard K. MacMaster
Hall and Hall, eds., Collected Works of James Wilson, 2 vols.
by Richard Leffler
Newman, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Formisano, For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s
by Andrew Shankman
Dunbar, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City
by Emma Lapsansky-Werner
Gross, Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love
by Lillian Serece Williams
Cole, Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
by Walter Licht
Hamilton, Rising from the Wilderness: J. W. Gitt and His Legendary Newspaper, the Gazette and Daily of York, Pa.
by Ford Risley