Contents

ARTICLES
"Never Did I See So Universal a Frenzy": The Panic of 1791 and the Republicanization of Philadelphia            Scott C. Miller	7
The Many Lives of James Bird: From "Mournful" Ballad to Nostalgic Legend                                                   Traci Langworthy	49
"She is the beauty of this place": Elizabeth Velora Elwell and the Role of Prisoner Participation and Deviance at Eastern State Penitentiary                                                                                                                                                               Rebecca Capobianco	83
Improving Independence: The Struggle over Land Surveys in Northwestern Pennslyvania in 1794                       Marcus Gallo	131
Pardon or Punish? Legal and Community Interpretations of a Nineteenth-Century Infanticide                     Joanna B. Spanos	163
Mixed Feelings: Stephen Colwell, Christian Sensibility, and the American State, 1841–61                              Drew VandeCreek	189
Pennsylvania: The Foundation of American Cuisine                                                                                          William Woys Weaver	237
Scents and Soda: French Perfume, American Glassworks, and the Rise of the Retail Water Industry                          Tara Dixon	239
Masters of a Craft: Philadelphia's Black Public Waiters, 1820–50                                                                           Danya M. Pilgrim	269
From Chow Chop Suey to Dishes in Cans: How Pennsylvania Chinese American Restauranteurs Lost to Racism, Ruffians, Reformers, and Economic Decline                                                                                                                                                       Susan Boslego Carter	295
Making Chocolate American: Labor, Tourism, and American Empire in the Hershey Company, 1903–85       Catherine Koonar	339
"Brown Bagging is Chic": The Origins and Distinctions of Philadelphia's BYOB Culture                                            Stephen Nepa	365
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS
Newly Acquired and Processed Collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania                                         HSP Archives Staff	107
HIDDEN GEMS	387
EDITORIALS	5, 233
BOOK REVIEWS	115, 215