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: “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: “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: “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: “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: “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: “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 […]
PA Books: “Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976” with Jed Perl
The second and final volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder–known to all as Sandy–and his wife, Louisa, opened their home to a stream of artists and writers in exile from Europe. In the postwar decades, they divided their time between the United States and France, as Calder made his […]
PA Books: “Harrisburg in WWI and the 1918 Pandemic” with Rodney Ross
In 1917, at the start of World War I, among global war and a global pandemic, Harrisburgers stepped up, surffered and served. They mustered municipal agencies, associations, churches, clubs and corporations as well as fraternal and female organizations to address the multiple challenges presented by the global events. Women volunteered for the Red Cross and […]
PA Books: “George Washington in the French & Indian War” with Scott Patchan
When Washington set the world on fire… George Washington has frequently been criticized for his first military campaign, which sparked the French and Indian War. This backwoods campaign between British and French colonials eventually grew into the Seven Years’ War, a global conflict between these European empires. In 1754 Washington was an ambitious yet inexperienced […]
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