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Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
Edited by Dennis B. Downey, James W. Conroy, Foreword by Dick Thornburgh, and Ginny Thornburgh
Troublesome Women
Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Erica Rhodes Hayden
Study in Black and White
Photography, Race, Humor
Tanya Sheehan
An Uncommon Woman
The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith
Mark Kelley
The War Against Tuberculosis
Samuel G. Dixon and the Rise of Modern Public Health in Pennsylvania
James E. Higgins
African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs
Opportunity, Access, and Community
Mary Ann Calo, and Epilogue by Jacqueline Francis
Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods
Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania
Edited by William A. Pencak and Daniel K. Richter
The Elite of Our People
Joseph Willson’s Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadelphia
Edited by Julie Winch
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
Prisoners of Congress
Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778
Norman E. Donoghue II
Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!
The Trials of William Rotch
Text by Sarah Crabtree, Art by Melissa Philley
A Conservative Environmentalist
The Life and Career of Frank Masland Jr.
Thomas G. Smith
Moses Jacob Ezekiel
Jewish, Confederate, Expatriate Sculptor
Samantha Baskind
New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century
Sabrina Fuchs Abrams
The Infortunate
The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant
Edited by Susan E. Klepp and Billy G. Smith
Cultures at the Susquehanna Confluence
The Diaries of the Moravian Mission to the Iroquois Confederacy, 1745–1755
Edited and Translated by Katherine M. Faull
A Black Philadelphia Reader
African American Writings About the City of Brotherly Love
Edited by Louis J. Parascandola
Set Up Running
The Life of a Pennsylvania Railroad Engineman, 1904–1949
John W. Orr, and Introduction by James D. Porterfield
Souls for Sale
Two German Redemptioners Come to Revolutionary America
Edited by Susan E. Klepp, Edited by Farley Grubb, and Anne Pfaelzer de Ortiz
Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures
The Celebrity Photograph in Gilded Age New York
Erin Pauwels
Painting the Inhabited Landscape
Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America
Margaretta M. Lovell
Metaphysical Africa
Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community
Michael Muhammad Knight
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism
African American Reformers in the Atlantic World
Carole Lynn Stewart
Elevate the Masses
Alexander Gardner, Photography, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America
Makeda Best
Power and Posterity
American Art at Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition
Kimberly Orcutt
An Empire of Print
The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic
Steven Carl Smith
The Schenley Experiment
A Social History of Pittsburgh’s First Public High School
Jake Oresick
The Other American Moderns
Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa
ShiPu Wang
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
Making and Remaking Pennsylvania’s Civil War
Edited by William A. Blair, and Edited by William A. Pencak
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