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PA Books

PA Books

PA Books is a weekly program on PCN that features an hour-long conversation with authors of newly published books on topics unique to Pennsylvania. After more than 20 years on the air, the program continues to produce an extensive video collection of interviews with the experts on Pennsylvania's history and culture. PA Books has preserved key moments for Pennsylvania by focusing on significant events like the Battles of Gettysburg and the Industrial Revolution, examining the lives of Pennsylvania's most famous citizens like W.C. Fields and Andrew Mellon, and hosting notable guests like Pulitzer Prize-Winner Joseph Ellis and former Phillies' greats Bill White and Tug McGraw. Back when it premiered on PCN in 1996, PA Books was only available on PCN on cable. With the PCN Select streaming service, viewers can stream new and on demand episodes of PA Books at any time.

New episodes air Sundays at 7 PM. You can also catch your favorite episodes daily at 8 AM.

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Upcoming Episodes:

Dick Thornburgh – “Where the Evidence Leads” -       Dick Thornburgh, former Pennsylvania Governor and US Attorney General, died on December 31 at the age of 88. Gov. Thornburgh served as Pennsylvania’s 41st Governor from 1979- 1987, and was known for his handling of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979. In 1988, he was appointed US Attorney General by President […]
January 24: “Preserving the White Man’s Republic” with Joshua Lynn - In "Preserving the White Man’s Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism," historian Joshua Lynn reveals how in the years before the Civil War the national Democratic Party rebranded majoritarian democracy and liberal individualism as conservative means for white men in the South and North to preserve their mastery. Responding to fears […]

Weekly Schedule

Date Time Episode
Monday January 1808:00 AMPA Books "The Delaware River Story"
Monday January 1808:30 AMPA Books "Ghost River"
Tuesday January 1908:00 AMPA Books "Native American in the Susquehanna River Valley, Past and Present"
Wednesday January 2008:00 AMPA Books "The Devil's to Pay: John Buford at Gettysburg"
Thursday January 2108:00 AMPA Books "As American as Shoofly Pie"
Friday January 2208:00 AMPA Books "Yuengling"
Sunday January 2407:00 PMPA Books "Preserving the White Man's Republic"

 On Demand - PA Books
PA BOOKS PROMO 2020 (25Yrs)
Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again, PA Books
Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976, PA Books
Dead Letters: Delivering Unopened Mail From a Pennsylvania Ghost Town, PA Books
The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution, PA Books
Geography, Geology, and Genius: How Coal and Canals Ignited the American Industrial Revolution - PA Books
The Houses of Louis Kahn, PA Books
Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World, PA Books
Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player, PA Books
Out of the Woods: From Deerfield to the Grand Circuit, PA Books
Playing Politics with Natural Disaster: Hurricane Agnes, The 1972 Election, and the Origins of FEMA - PA Books


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  • 2020 PA Books: Becoming Philadelphia

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  • 2020 PA Books: Dead Letters

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  • 2020 PA Books: Emotional Gettysburg

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  • 2020 PA Books: George Washington’s Nemesis

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  • 2020 PA Books: Ghost River

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  • 2020 PA Books: Horne’s & Kaufmann’s

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