Pennsylvania History Association 2018 Conference

Esther DeBerdt Reed and the American Revolution

Owen S. Ireland

“In a comprehensive and moving study, Owen Ireland brings to light the important but little-known story of Esther DeBerdt Reed, one of the most powerful female figures to emerge during the American Revolution. Ireland chronicles the grand love affair between Reed, a privileged Londoner, and her husband, an American lawyer and patriot, and also explores how Reed became the leading organizer of the Philadelphia Ladies Association, a group that provided critical financial assistance to Washington’s troops. Improbable, inspirational, and instructive, Reed’s life is a tale of female self-invention and of love played out in the shadows of the Revolutionary crisis.”
—Rosemarie Zagarri, author of Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic

A Single Moravian Woman in Early America

Edited by Scott Paul Gordon

“A thoroughly astonishing record of a woman’s life, work, and thought in the age of the American Revolution. Gordon’s careful editing, detailed notes, and engaging introduction bring Mary Penry to life and make it easy to slip into a long-past world. This source adds an essential work to the corpus of women’s writings from the eighteenth century. It will be prized by scholars and readers alike for a long time to come.”
—Katherine Carté Engel, author of Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America

Life and Law in the Commonwealth, 1684–2017

Edited by John J. Hare

“This book successfully achieves what most of its kind cannot—it both educates and inspires. John Hare and his remarkable team of contributors address diverse historical and contemporary topics in a way that generations of lawyers and historians will both enjoy and treasure. This terrific book preserves, unlike any other, the incredible legacy of our Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.”
—Maureen E. Lally-Green, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, J. (ret)

Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, Edited with an introduction by Benjamin Hoffmann, and Translated by Alan J. Singerman

“This book is a major addition to the fields of American studies and the history of political thought, and it will be welcomed by historians and political theorists alike. Benjamin Hoffmann’s erudite introduction offers a genuine tour de force in intellectual history that brings a significant contribution to an important ongoing debate on the image and role of America in the new world order.”
—Aurelian Craiutu, author of A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748–1830

Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields

Julia Spicher Kasdorf, and Steven Rubin

“The long sleep of the Appalachians has been dramatically interrupted by the sudden discovery of the Marcellus Shale. This book helps us see and understand what that has meant for the region. It's a classic tale, with echoes of the region's past—and deep implications for the planet's future.”
—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies

Linda A. Ries, Editor

Pennsylvania History presents previously unpublished works that are of interest to scholars of the Middle Atlantic region. The journal also reviews books, exhibits, and other media that deal primarily with Pennsylvania history or that shed significant light on the state’s past.

Pennsylvania History is the official journal of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, which advocates and advances knowledge about the history and culture of Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region.

Paul M. Peucker, Editor

The Journal of Moravian History is a peer-reviewed English language journal, which publishes scholarly articles and reviews publications in all areas of the history of the Unitas Fratrum (Moravian Church, Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine). The Journal also publishes research notes and original primary source materials relating to the Unitas Fratrum.

The Journal of Moravian History is the official journal of the Moravian Archives and the Moravian Historical Society.