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2009 (Volume 133)

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 NavyFrom 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