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10:00 PMJournalists Roundtable
10:30 PMAfrican American Experience: August Wilson
11:30 PMAfrican American Experience: The African American Community in Hinsonville, PA
12:30 AMAfrican American Experience: William Still
01:30 AMAfrican American Experience: The 1969 Franklin & Marshall College Student Uprising
02:30 AMAfrican American Experience: Octavius Catto
03:30 AMAfrican American Experience: Eden Cemetery
04:15 AMAfrican American Experience: Residential Segregation in Allentown
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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:

May 8: “Philadelphia’s Germans” with Richard Juliani - In "Philadelphia’s Germans: From Colonial Settlers to Enemy Aliens," Richard N. Juliani examines the social, cultural, and political life, along with the ethnic consciousness, of Philadelphia’s Germans, from their participation in the founding of the colony of Pennsylvania to the entry of the United States into World War I. This book focuses on their paradoxical […]
May 15: “Up to Heaven and Down to Hell” with Colin Jerolmack - Shale gas extraction—commonly known as fracking—is often portrayed as an energy revolution that will transform the American economy and geopolitics. But in greater Williamsport, Pennsylvania, fracking is personal. "Up to Heaven and Down to Hell" is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking account of what happens when one of the most momentous decisions about the well-being […]

 On Demand - PA Books
img4804597005001PA BOOKS PROMO 2020 (25Yrs)
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img4804597005001American Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane, PA Books
img4804597005001Arlen Specter: Scandals, Conspiracies, and Crisis in Focus - PA Books
img4804597005001Armistead and Hancock
img4804597005001Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders, PA Books
img4804597005001Biddle, Jackson, and a Nation in Turmoil: The Infamous Bank War - PA Books
img4804597005001Buchanan Dying, PA Books
img4804597005001Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976, PA Books
img4804597005001The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and The Urban Frontier in Early America, PA Books
img4804597005001Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in Johnstown
img4804597005001The Dogs of War in Our Midst: Civil War Perspectives from York County, PA, PA Books
img4804597005001Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State, PA Books
img4804597005001Geography, Geology, and Genius: How Coal and Canals Ignited the American Industrial Revolution - PA Books
img4804597005001George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father, PA Books
img4804597005001Harrisburg in World War II, PA Books
img4804597005001Hell with the Lid Off: Inside the Fierce Rivalry Between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers, PA Books
img4804597005001A History of Pittsburgh Jazz: Swinging in the Steel City, PA Books
img4804597005001The Horse at Gettysburg: Prepared for the Day of Battle, PA Books
img4804597005001The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People, and Ideas - PA Books
img4804597005001Jane Jacob's First City: Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania, PA Books
img4804597005001John Marshall: The Final Founder, PA Books
img4804597005001Lafayette at Brandywine: The Making of an American Hero, PA Books
img4804597005001Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public: Community Libraries in Pennsylvania from the Colonial Era Through World War II, PA Books
img4804597005001Never I Shall Forget These Human People, PA Books
img4804597005001Occupied America, PA Books
img4804597005001Out of the Woods: From Deerfield to the Grand Circuit, PA Books
img4804597005001Philadelphia's Germans, PA Books
img4804597005001Physician Soldier, PA Books
img4804597005001Salut! France Meets Philadelphia, PA Books
img4804597005001Sewn in Coal Country, PA Books
img4804597005001Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood, PA Books
img4804597005001The Strangest Season: 2020-2021 Pittsburgh Scene, PA Books
img4804597005001Teen Idol On The Rocks, PA Books
img4804597005001Time Of Anarchy, PA Books
img4804597005001Translingual Inheritance: Language Diversity in Early National Philadelphia, PA Books
img4804597005001Unsung Hero of Gettysburg, PA Books
img4804597005001Warhol, PA Books

*Books featured in these episodes are not available from PCN*


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  • 2020 PA Books: Emotional Gettysburg

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