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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 PCN Select 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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pa-books-logo September 17: “Digging in the City of Brotherly Love” (2nd Edition) with Rebecca Yamin - Historic Philadelphia has long yielded archaeological treasures from its past. Excavations required by the National Historic Preservation Act have recovered pottery shards, pots, plates, coins, bones, and other artifacts relating to early life in the city. This updated edition of Digging in the City of Brotherly Love continues to use archaeology to learn about and […]
PA Books: “The Whiskey Rebellion” with Brady Crytzer (2023) - In March 1791 Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton shocked the western frontier when he proposed a domestic excise tax on whiskey to balance America’s national debt. The law, known colloquially as the “Whiskey Act,” disproportionately penalized farmers in the backcountry, while offering favorable tax incentives designed to protect larger distillers. Although Hamilton viewed the law as […]

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img4804597005001Abolition & the Underground Railroad in Chester County, PA - PA Books
img4804597005001All Roads Led to Gettysburg, PA Books
img4804597005001"American Ramble", PA Books
img4804597005001“American Sirens” with Kevin Hazzard, PA Books
img4804597005001American Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane - PA Books
img4804597005001"Are All Politics Nationalized?" - 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
img4804597005001Beethoven in Beijing: Stories From the Philadelphia Orchestra's Historic Journey to China, PA Books
img4804597005001Biddle, Jackson, and a Nation in Turmoil: The Infamous Bank War - PA Books
img4804597005001Boxed out of the NBA: Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League, PA Books
img4804597005001Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years, 1940-1976 - PA Books
img4804597005001Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and The Urban Frontier in Early America, The - PA Books
img4804597005001Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, PA Books
img4804597005001Death of the Daily News: How Citizen Gatekeepers Can Save Local Journalism, PA Books
img4804597005001Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System 1829-1913, The - PA Books
img4804597005001Digging in the City of Brotherly Love, 2nd Edition, PA Books
img4804597005001Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in Johnstown, PA Books
img4804597005001Dogs of War in Our Midst: Civil War Perspectives from York County, PA, The - PA Books
img4804597005001"Donora Death Fog," PA Books
img4804597005001Early History of the Wyoming Valley: The Yankee-Pennamite Wars and Timothy Pickering, An - PA Books
img4804597005001Feeding Washington’s Army, PA Books
img4804597005001Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State, PA Books
img4804597005001From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia, PA Books
img4804597005001Geography, Geology, and Genius: How Coal and Canals Ignited the American Industrial Revolution - PA Books
img4804597005001George Marshall's Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 1917-1918, PA Books
img4804597005001George Nakashima Woodworkers Process Book, PA Books
img4804597005001George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father - PA Books
img4804597005001Gettysburg's Lost Love Story: The Ill-Fated Romance of General John Reynolds and Kate Hewitt, 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
img4804597005001History of Pittsburgh Jazz: Swinging in the Steel City, A - PA Books
img4804597005001Horse at Gettysburg: Prepared for the Day of Battle, The - PA Books
img4804597005001“If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania:” The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg - Volume 1: June 3–21, 1863 - PA Books
img4804597005001Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People, and Ideas; The - PA Books
img4804597005001Jane Jacobs's First City: Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania - PA Books
img4804597005001"Joe Louis vs. Billy Conn," PA Books
img4804597005001Kaufmann's: The Family That Built Pittsburgh's Famed Department Store, PA Books
img4804597005001Lafayette at Brandywine: The Making of an American Hero, PA Books
img4804597005001Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania, PA Books Founders Series
img4804597005001The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War, PA Books
img4804597005001Martin Guitar Masterpieces: A Showcase of Artist's Editions Limited Editions and Custom Guitars, PA Books
img4804597005001"A Most Gallant Resistance", PA Books
img4804597005001Murder and Mayhem in Erie, Pennsylvania - PA Books
img4804597005001Never I Shall Forget These Human People, PA Books
img4804597005001The New Face of Small-Town America, PA Books
img4804597005001No Place for Glory: Major General Robert E. Rodes and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg, 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: The South Pacific Letters of Captain Fred Gabriel from the 39th Station Hospital, PA Books
img4804597005001Pirates and Privateers: From Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay, PA Books
img4804597005001Prisoners of Congress, PA Books
img4804597005001River Boots, PA Books
img4804597005001Sewn in Coal Country: An Oral History of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945–1995 - PA Books
img4804597005001Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania, PA Books
img4804597005001"Small-Town Cops In The Crosshairs", PA Books
img4804597005001Somebody Else’s Dream: Dakota, the Buoys, & "Timothy" - PA Books
img4804597005001Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood, PA Books
img4804597005001Strangest Season: 2020-2021 Pittsburgh Scene, The - PA Books
img4804597005001"Street Diplomacy," PA Books
img4804597005001"Surviving The Winter", PA Books
img4804597005001Teen Idol On The Rocks, PA Books
img4804597005001The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen - PA Books Founder's Series
img4804597005001The Whiskey Rebellion, PA Books
img4804597005001Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America, PA Books
img4804597005001Translingual Inheritance: Language Diversity in Early National Philadelphia, PA Books
img4804597005001Unsung Hero of Gettysburg, PA Books
img4804597005001Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town - PA Books
img4804597005001"Vigilance," PA Books
img4804597005001Warhol, PA Books
img4804597005001Jerry Blavat's "You Only Rock Once: My Life In Music," PA Books

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