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We’ll miss meeting you this year at the Pennsylvania Historical Association. However, we would still like to introduce you to some of our new titles, many of which are also available as e-books! Please browse and follow the links to shop! Use coupon code PHA20 to receive 30% off!
Have a project you’d like to discuss? Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic history, regional studies and regional trade, and religious studies. Her series include Inventing Christianity, Signifying (on) Scriptures, Religion Around, The Max Kade Research Institute Series: Germans beyond Europe, Keystone Books, Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies, Critical Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700, and World Christianity
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Sewn in Coal Country
An Oral History of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945–1995
Edited by Robert P. Wolensky
Out in Central Pennsylvania
The History of an LGBTQ Community
William Burton with Barry Loveland
Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
Edited by Dennis B. Downey, James W. Conroy, Foreword by Dick Thornburgh, and Ginny Thornburgh
The Word in the Wilderness
Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania
Alexander Lawrence Ames
Field Language
The Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer
Edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Christopher Reed, and Joyce Henri Robinson
Contraband Guides
Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era
Paul H. D. Kaplan
The Play World
Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood
Patricia Anne Simpson
The Susquehannocks
New Perspectives on Settlement and Cultural Identity
Edited by Paul A. Raber
A Material World
Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America
Edited by George W. Boudreau and Margaretta M. Lovell
Bells for America
The Cold War, Modernism, and the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington
Diederik Oostdijk
Troublesome Women
Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Erica Rhodes Hayden
The Writings of Elizabeth Webb
A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697–1726
Edited by Rachel Cope and Zachary McLeod Hutchins
Queering Mennonite Literature
Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community
Daniel Shank Cruz
The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader
Writings by an Early American Polymath
Patrick Erben, Alfred Brophy, and Margo Lambert
Babel of the Atlantic
Edited by Bethany Wiggin
Glenhill Farm
The History of a Family Estate, as Revealed in the Correspondence Between Brognard Okie and Ernst and Mary Behrend
Richard L. Hart
Shale Play
Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields
Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin
Evan Pugh’s Penn State
America’s Model Agricultural College
Roger L. Williams
The Letters of Mary Penry
A Single Moravian Woman in Early America
Edited by Scott Paul Gordon
Twilight of the Hemlocks and Beeches
Tim Palmer
Sentiments of a British-American Woman
Esther DeBerdt Reed and the American Revolution
Owen S. Ireland
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Life and Law in the Commonwealth, 1684–2017
Edited by John J. Hare
The Quakers, 1656–1723
The Evolution of an Alternative Community
By Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore
Indian Paths of Pennsylvania
Paul A. W. Wallace, and Foreword by Kurt W. Carr
Posthumous America
Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Benjamin Hoffmann, and Translated by Alan J. Singerman
Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic
Revised and Expanded Edition
Bill Russell
Lair of the Lion
A History of Beaver Stadium
Lee Stout and Harry H. West
The Schenley Experiment
A Social History of Pittsburgh’s First Public High School
Jake Oresick
Speaking to Body and Soul
Instructions for the Moravian Choir Helpers, 1785–1786
Edited and translated by Katherine M. Faull
Gifford Pinchot
Selected Writings
Gifford Pinchot, Edited by Char Miller
An Empire of Print
The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic
Steven Carl Smith
Memories of Lincoln and the Splintering of American Political Thought
Shawn J. Parry-Giles and David S. Kaufer
Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio
Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, Edited with an introduction by Benjamin Hoffmann, and Translated by Alan J. Singerman
Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers
A Visual History of Pennsylvania’s Railroad Lumbering Communities; The Photographic Legacy of William T. Clarke
Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell with an Introduction by Linda A. Ries
The Grid and the River
Philadelphia’s Green Places, 1682–1876
Elizabeth Milroy
Serious Nonsense
Groundhog Lodges, Versammlinge, and Pennsylvania German Heritage
William W. Donner
From Memory to Memorial
Shanksville, America, and Flight 93
J. William Thompson
Hope in Hard Times
Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression
Timothy Kelly, Margaret Power, and Michael Cary
Plowshares
Protest, Performance, and Religious Identity in the Nuclear Age
Kristen Tobey
A Greene Country Towne
Philadelphia’s Ecology in the Cultural Imagination
Edited by Alan C. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe
First Pennsylvanians
The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania
Kurt W. Carr and Roger W. Moeller
Emilie Davis’s Civil War
The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863–1865
Edited by Judith Giesberg, transcribed and annotated by The Memorable Days Project
Jacob Green’s Revolution
Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age
S. Scott Rohrer
A Peculiar Mixture
German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America
Edited by Jan Stievermann and Oliver Scheiding
Citizens in a Strange Land
A Study of German-American Broadsides and Their Meaning for Germans in North America, 1730–1830
Hermann Wellenreuther
Church and Estate
Religion and Wealth in Industrial-Era Philadelphia
Thomas F. Rzeznik
Pennsylvania in Public Memory
Reclaiming the Industrial Past
Carolyn Kitch
Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement
Susan Rimby
Doctored
The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
Tanya Sheehan
Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880–2000
Karol K. Weaver
The Practice of Pluralism
Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730–1820
Mark Häberlein
Immigrant and Entrepreneur
The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650–1750
Rosalind Beiler
A Country Storekeeper in Pennsylvania
Creating Economic Networks in Early America, 1790–1807
Diane E. Wenger
Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch
A Traditional Medical Practice in the Modern World
David W. Kriebel
The Economy of Early America
Historical Perspectives and New Directions
Edited by Cathy Matson
Voices of the Knox Mine Disaster
Stories, Remembrances, and Reflections on the Anthracite Coal Industry’s Last Major Catastrophe, January 22, 1959
Robert P. Wolensky, Kenneth C. Wolensky, and Nicole H. Wolensky
Community of the Cross
Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem
Craig D. Atwood
Pennsylvania
A History of the Commonwealth
Edited by Randall M. Miller and William A. Pencak
Susquehanna’s Indians
Barry C. Kent
Making Iron on the Bald Eagle
Roland Curtin’s Ironworks and Workers’ Community
Gerald G. Eggert
The Knox Mine Disaster, January 22, 1959
The Final Years of the Northern Anthracite Industry and the Effort to Rebuild a Regional Economy
Robert P. Wolensky, Kenneth C. Wolensky, and Nicole H. Wolensky
Indians in Pennsylvania
Paul A. W. Wallace
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