One of the last great memoirs of World War II, Into the Cold Blue is a riveting account of the air war over Europe, when hell was four miles above the earth. A born daredevil, John Homan joined the Army Air Forces after the attack on Pearl Harbor. By 1944, he was co-piloting a B-24 […]
PA Books: “Gen X Pittsburgh” with David Rullo (2024)
Beginning in the early 1990s, Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood began to transform from the post-industrial morass it had been suffering for the last few decades. Artists began to rent empty apartments, what were once shot-and-a-beer bars became hip dive bars and entrepreneurs found inexpensive real estate to follow their visions. It was in this landscape […]
PA Books: “Work, Fight, Or Play Ball” with William Ecenbarger (2024)
In 1918, Bethlehem Steel started the world’s greatest industrial baseball league. Appealing to Major League Baseball players looking to avoid service in the Great War, teams employed “ringers” like Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, and Shoeless Joe Jackson in what became scornfully known as “safe shelter” leagues. In Work, Fight, or Play Ball, William Ecenbarger fondly […]
PA Books: “Voices from Gettysburg” with Allen Guelzo (2024)
Gathering a treasure trove of powerful, rare, and haunting original documents, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo presents a uniquely readable and intimate oral history of the Civil War’s turning point. We hear from a Union staff officer, a Confederate amputee, artilleryman, a sympathetic Northern woman, a Union prisoner-of-war, Union […]
PA Books: “Never To Be Forgotten” with Jim McClure
To borrow an image from a sage historian, York County, Pa.’s story is a stream that bears the things that historians record – pivotal events, breakthrough achievements and regrettable misjudgments. James McClure’s expanded and updated “Never To Be Forgotten” tells the story of this stream but also takes a keen interest in what is happening […]
PA Books: William Trent: Factor of Ambition with Jason Cherry
William Trent was the son of a Philadelphia shipping merchant and the namesake for the capital of New Jersey, Trent’s own legacy as a gentleman, throughout the latter half of the eighteenth century was always remembered for his controversial role at Fort Pitt in “gifting” smallpox blankets to the Indians that early summer of 1763. […]
PA Books: “Pennsylvania Government and Politics” with Thomas Baldino and Paula Duda Holoviak (2024)
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the Keystone State’s formal and informal political institutions and players, past and present, and elucidates the place each holds in governing the commonwealth today. Covering a period of more than three hundred years, this volume presents a clear and succinct overview of the commonwealth’s political history, culture, and […]
PA Books: “Telling of the Anthracite” with Philip Mosley (2024)
“Telling of the Anthracite” explores the various ways in which anthracite history has been represented and remembered since 1960, the chosen date for the start of the “posthistorical” era coinciding approximately with the Knox mine disaster (1959) and the beginning of the Centralia mine fire (1962-), two cataclysmic and fateful events that symbolize the beginning […]
PA Books: “That Our Daughters May Be as Cornerstones” with Chad Leinaweaver (2024)
With the passage of time, do most current residents of Mechanicsburg, Pa. even know its borough once had college? And that it was only for women? Beyond a State of Pennsylvania marker denoting Irving College as the first college to offer degrees in the arts and sciences to women and that two of its building […]
PA Books: “On a Great Battlefield” with Jennifer Murray (2024)
Of the more than seventy sites associated with the Civil War era that the National Park Service manages, none hold more national appeal and recognition than Gettysburg National Military Park. Welcoming more than one million visitors annually from across the world, the National Park Service at Gettysburg holds the enormous responsibility of preserving the war’s […]
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