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The Lawrence Family of Erie, PA
In this episode of the African American Experience we look at black life in Erie through the experiences of the Lawrence family. The family arrived in Erie in the mid-1800s and went on to play a prominent role as entrepreneurs, musicians, and teachers in the 20th century. Joining us is Johnny Johnson, a member of […]
PA Books: “Longstreet at Gettysburg”
This is the first book-length, critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreet’s actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. The author argues that Longstreet’s record has been discredited unfairly, beginning with character assassination by his contemporaries after the war and, persistently, by historians in the decades since. By closely studying the three-day battle, and conducting an […]
PA Books: “Frank Furness: Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines”
Frank Furness (1839-1912) has remained a curiosity to architectural historians and critics, somewhere between an icon and an enigma, whose importance and impact have yet to be properly evaluated or appreciated. To some, his work pushed pattern and proportion to extremes, undermining or forcing together the historic styles he referenced in such eclectic buildings as […]
PA Books: “Idlewild”
Idlewild was developed by Pittsburgh’s Mellon family as a picnic grove to boost traffic on the Ligonier Valley Rail Road. When C.C. Macdonald took the helm in 1931, rides, entertainment and other attractions came to Idlewild over the next half century, along with the adjacent Story Book Forest. After joining the Kennywood family of amusement […]
PA Books: The Western Delaware Indian Nation, 1730–1795
During the early eighteenth century, three phratries or tribes (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf) of Delaware Indians left their traditional homeland in the Delaware River watershed and moved west to the Allegheny Valley of western Pennsylvania and eventually across the Ohio River into the Muskingum River valley. As newcomers to the colonial American borderlands, these bands […]
“Unlikely General: “Mad” Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America”
In the spring of 1792, President George Washington chose “Mad” Anthony Wayne to defend America from a potentially devastating threat. Native forces had decimated the standing army and Washington needed a champion to open the country stretching from the Ohio River westward to the headwaters of the Mississippi for settlement. A spendthrift, womanizer, and heavy […]
“William Penn: A Life”
On March 4, 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for a new American colony. Pennsylvania was to be, in its founder’s words, a bold “Holy Experiment” in religious freedom and toleration, a haven for those fleeing persecution in an increasingly intolerant England and across Europe. An activist, political theorist, and the proprietor […]
PA Books: Remembering Lattimer
On September 10, 1897, a group of 400 striking coal miners–workers of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin–marched on Lattimer, Pennsylvania. There, law enforcement officers fired without warning into the protesters, killing nineteen miners and wounding thirty-eight others. The bloody day quickly faded into history. Paul Shackel confronts the legacies and lessons of the […]
PA Press Club with Brandon Flood, PA Board of Pardons Secretary
PA Press Club with Brandon Flood, PA Board of Pardons Secretary. Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.
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