Project MUSE®: Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 77 (2010) through current issueLatest Articles: Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic StudiesTWOProject MUSE®Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies2153-21090031-4528Latest articles in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®"Hidden in Plain Sight": Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989328
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Heaven help any newcomer to the English language attempting to make sense of this idea. Looking up the word "hidden," an inquirer would learn that it means thoroughly screened from view. But "in plain sight," they would learn, means highly visible to any passerby, discernible with no effort at all. Presumably, they would have the good sense to shrug their shoulders, grumble over the mysteries of English, and give thanks that they were born to speak some more rational tongue. For anyone born to English, however, the phrase lands as familiarly as any idiom would. We think we know what it means. But pause here a moment and think about the contradiction in it, because, when unpacked, the phrase means much more than we
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmall"Hidden in Plain Sight": Introduction2026-05-05text/htmlen-US"Hidden in Plain Sight": Introduction2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®114812026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05What Happened, and What Did Not, at the President's House on Independence Mall
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989329
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Between 1790 and 1797, President George and First Lady Martha Washington lived in a Philadelphia house rented by the United States Congress for their use at Sixth and Market Streets. The president held cabinet meetings, public levees, and diplomatic negotiations with Indigenous leaders there. He also signed foundational legislation at the house, including the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act. All around this activity, enslaved people brought from Mount Vernon in Virginia served and tended to the Washingtons. As the new government strove to define, shape, and sustain a self-governing republic of White men, the feeding, cleaning, transportation, and care the presidential family required was largely provided by enslaved
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallWhat Happened, and What Did Not, at the President's House on Independence Mall2026-05-05text/htmlen-USWhat Happened, and What Did Not, at the President's House on Independence Mall2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®278402026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Conversation and Community at Cliveden
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989330
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As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the country is reckoning with the "truths" asserted in that founding document, that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."1 For much of the nation's history, these truths did not apply to African American or Native American men or to women. Their histories, alongside the stories of other contributors to building the nation, were suppressed and ignored. Cliveden of the National Trust, the historic home of the Benjamin Chew family in the Germantown neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia, participated
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallConversation and Community at Cliveden2026-05-05text/htmlen-USConversation and Community at Cliveden2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®343882026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05The Penn & Slavery Project
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989331
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When students at the University of Pennsylvania began to examine their institution's history of complicity in slavery, none of us knew exactly what their research would uncover. Georgetown, Brown, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale were all well launched on their own investigations by the time students at Penn began their work in 2017. At these other institutions, faculty and graduate students led the way, while at Penn, undergraduates did the research. In exchange for training in research methods, archival experience, and course credit, these student researchers enabled Penn's study of its complicity in slavery to take place with only minimal institutional investment.Research findings at the other institutions studying
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallThe Penn & Slavery Project2026-05-05text/htmlen-USThe Penn & Slavery Project2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®142112026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05The Penn & Slavery Project: The Augmented Reality Campus Tour
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989332
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As we approach the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, in a time of unprecedented (though not unexpected) social, political, and economic upheaval, there is a call across the nation for "civic healing." When historians are asked to speak about this issue, we, guided by our profession, turn to the past for answers. Such is the case for the members of the Penn & Slavery Project, which seeks to understand the relationship between the University of Pennsylvania and the institution of American slavery. Since its inception, the Penn & Slavery Project has called for the University to tell a more wholistic story about its history. The first challenge came in the reason the history was hidden at all.In 2006, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallThe Penn & Slavery Project: The Augmented Reality Campus Tour2026-05-05text/htmlen-USThe Penn & Slavery Project: The Augmented Reality Campus Tour2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®305452026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Seeing Slavery in Pennsylvania: A Semiquincentennial Perspective
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989333
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Over the past quarter century or so, Pennsylvania's experience with slavery has gained considerable attention. Long treated as a sidebar in historical accounts of the colony and the commonwealth, slavery increasingly claims a more central descriptive role in Pennsylvania's past and, through Pennsylvania, in the history of "America."1 Practices and experiences of slavery have emerged in scholarly works, presentations in the public square, and at historic properties and museums. Primary and secondary schools have joined collegiate settings in exploring more inclusive and complex histories in courses, programming, and community engagement. The essays published here provide a "report" of sorts on the current state of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallSeeing Slavery in Pennsylvania: A Semiquincentennial Perspective2026-05-05text/htmlen-USSeeing Slavery in Pennsylvania: A Semiquincentennial Perspective2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®580802026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05The Day Philadelphia Stopped
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989334
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Throughout history, the struggle between rights and responsibilities has been a defining force in shaping the world we live in. People have long fought for their rights, whether it's the right to speak freely, to vote, or to live without oppression. But with every right comes a responsibility—an understanding that freedom must be balanced with duty. Major events in history, from civil rights movements to the founding of nations, show us that rights are not just about what we can claim for ourselves but also about what we owe to others. The choices made by individuals, groups, and governments have always reflected this delicate balance. Some have fought for justice, while others have ignored their duties, leading to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallThe Day Philadelphia Stopped2026-05-05text/htmlen-USThe Day Philadelphia Stopped2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®407192026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05"The sweets of an Indian trade": Authority, Violence, and the Construction of Indian Policy on the Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1754–1768
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989335
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In June 1765, the Pennsylvania Provincial Council convened to discuss the "riotous Conduct of the Inhabitants of Cumberland." A month prior, a group of frontiersmen called the Black Boys had assembled under James Smith and marched onto Fort Loudon in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, to destroy goods held there intended for trade with Native Americans at Pittsburgh and Detroit. Lieutenant Colonel John Reid, who had just replaced Colonel Henry Bouquet as the Commander for the District of Fort Pitt, reported that these rioters "appeared before the Fort, & demanded to Search the Goods, with an intention, it is believed, to plunder and destroy them."1 The Black Boys' intention to destroy the goods held at Fort Loudon
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmall"The sweets of an Indian trade": Authority, Violence, and the Construction of Indian Policy on the Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1754–17682026-05-05text/htmlen-US"The sweets of an Indian trade": Authority, Violence, and the Construction of Indian Policy on the Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1754–17682026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®1116522026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Revolution on the Northern Frontier
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989336
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Two hundred and fifty years after the American Revolution, historians continue to find new stories to enrich our understanding of the creation of the United States. In Defending Fort Stanwix and Declarations of Independence, William L. Kidder and Christopher R. Pearl, respectively, draw our attention to the hinterlands of New York and Pennsylvania to add voices often ignored in histories of the founding. Both books testify to the complexity of the era and the contradictions of a nation forged with the twin ambitions of liberty and empire.One of the most important yet little studied theaters of the American Revolutionary War is central New York where the Patriots' defense of Fort Stanwix in August 1777 facilitated
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallRevolution on the Northern Frontier2026-05-05text/htmlen-USRevolution on the Northern Frontier2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®170222026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood by Colter Harper (review)
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The late Pittsburgh native jazz icon, Ahamd Jamal, called jazz "America's classical music."1 Jamal, a Homewood community native and Westinghouse High School graduate, held an affinity for the history of Pittsburgh jazz. Having grown up in Pittsburgh, Jamal grew up with the knowledge of local jazz legends. He was a paperboy for the Strayhorn family and lived blocks away from Mary Lou Williams and Erroll Garner. Jamal would go on to be one of America's most celebrated and creative jazz composers and pianists. He was a recipient of the Ministerial Order of the French Republic, one of the highest honors bestowed by the French government for artistic contributions to France and the world. Jamal was one of the many
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallJazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood by Colter Harper (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USJazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood by Colter Harper (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®116112026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05King of the Gun Runners: How a Philadelphia Fruit Importer Inspired a Revolution and Provoked the Spanish-American War by James W. Miller (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989338
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The Spanish-American War has a paradoxical place in the American imagination. Heralded (and derided) as when the United States stepped onto the world stage, especially in the acquisition of overseas territories, the conflict has been called the dawn of imperialism and the beginning of the American Century. These are epic, world-changing historical themes. Yet for all that, the war itself, let alone its origins, garners much less attention, except for specialists. For too many, it is enough to say that yellow journalists spun up a credulous country into a frenzy over the sinking of the battleship Maine, sending the burgeoning power into the almost comically pathetic "splendid little war." Off we went.History is
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallKing of the Gun Runners: How a Philadelphia Fruit Importer Inspired a Revolution and Provoked the Spanish-American War by James W. Miller (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USKing of the Gun Runners: How a Philadelphia Fruit Importer Inspired a Revolution and Provoked the Spanish-American War by James W. Miller (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®79802026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk by James T. Sears (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989339
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In Queering Rehoboth Beach, James T. Sears explores the social, religious, and political forces that transformed Rehoboth Beach from a Methodist Church camp to "The Nation's Summer Capital" with one of the highest populations of LGBTQ+ people in the country. His main argument centers on how the conflict that emerged between the queer community in Rehoboth and the Homeowners Association in the 1980s to 1990s parallels Rehoboth's historical conflict between secularized business "excursionists" and the conservative, religious property owners of the 1870s and 1880s (17). Sears' experience in utilizing oral histories is evident in how he weaves first-hand accounts, some conflicting, with archival research to produce a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallQueering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk by James T. Sears (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USQueering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk by James T. Sears (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®101772026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05To Organize the Sovereign People: Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania by David W. Houpt (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989340
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David W. Houpt's To Organize the Sovereign People studies the evolving political culture in Pennsylvania from the start of the American Revolution to 1808. Over that roughly thirty-year span, Houpt argues "that citizens embraced political parties and elections because other, more direct ways of exercising their sovereignty proved unwieldy and ultimately ineffective at translating public opinion into public policy" (5). The concepts at the heart of this work, such as popular sovereignty, "the people," and effective government are often hard to pin down. To counter this, Houpt focuses his study on the "mid-level political activists who connected the realms of formal and informal politics" to better understand how
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallTo Organize the Sovereign People: Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania by David W. Houpt (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USTo Organize the Sovereign People: Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania by David W. Houpt (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®107702026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence ed. by Richard Upsher Smith Jr. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989341
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In 1997 the wife of editor Richard Upsher Smith Jr. was gifted with "two garbage bags full of old letters" by Emily Brooks, widow of Frank P. Brooks, former chief of gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania (xii). An avid book collector, Brooks likely purchased the collection of more than one thousand letters, later identified by Smith as the Emma Taylor Lamborn Papers, sometime in the mid-twentieth century. In A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections, Smith has transcribed and edited 269 of the 646 Civil War–era letters written by Emma Taylor, her fiancée Charles Burleigh Lamborn, and various family members.Smith divides his book into five sections with each section corresponding with one
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallA Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence ed. by Richard Upsher Smith Jr. (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USA Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence ed. by Richard Upsher Smith Jr. (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®84192026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect by Heather Isbell Schumacher et al. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989342
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This is an exquisite catalogue, which accompanied the exhibit of the same name, Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect. As with the exhibit, the catalogue is a project of collaborators within the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Also making significant contributions are an independent architectural scholar and a professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Buffalo. Heather Isbell Schumacher, archivist of the Architectural Archives, contributed the prologue; Molly Lester, associate director of the Urban Heritage Project, crafted the biography; Franca Trubiano, associate professor, curated and framed the subject's personal writing; William
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallMinerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect by Heather Isbell Schumacher et al. (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USMinerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect by Heather Isbell Schumacher et al. (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®75652026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05The Other Presidency: Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society by Patrick Spero (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989343
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Biographies of Thomas Jefferson provide a cursory overview of his involvement with the American Philosophical Society (APS): elected to membership in 1780 and president of the organization from 1797 to 1814, holding that position even while he served as Vice President and President of the United States. This small volume, originally distributed as a pamphlet at the November 2018 APS meeting and later published in the Society's Proceedings, aims to fill in the details of Jefferson's association with the American Philosophical Society and to place his stewardship of the APS in the political context of the Federalist/Republican dispute over their competing paradigms of how to achieve an independent, prosperous United
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallThe Other Presidency: Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society by Patrick Spero (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USThe Other Presidency: Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society by Patrick Spero (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®83542026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing Legacy by Amy Jane Cohen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989344
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In Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, Amy Jane Cohen explores the impact of Black Philadelphians, not only on the history of the city but also on its built environment and memorial infrastructure. Seeking to explore the "ongoing process of altering our landscape to acknowledge the deep roots and continuing legacy of Black Philadelphians," Cohen blends historical narration with reflection from community members and memory work practitioners to educate readers about significant events and figures in Philadelphia history, with particular attention paid to the presence of such events and figures in the landscape (2). Cohen discusses historical markers and monuments, house museums, statues, murals
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallBlack History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing Legacy by Amy Jane Cohen (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USBlack History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing Legacy by Amy Jane Cohen (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®90682026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05The Journals of the Moravian Mission to Georgia, 1734–1737: From Herrnhut to Savannah ed. by Achim Kopp and John Thomas Scott (review)
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The Moravians were variously known as the Unitas Fratrum (Unity of the Brethren), Brűdergemeine (Congregation of the Brethren), Herrnhuters, and in America, Moravians. Their religious practices and beliefs had roots in their historical past that extended to pre-Reformations days in Central Europe as descendants of fifteenth-century Czech reformer and martyr Jan Hus (1370–1415). Hus and his followers, Hussites, opposed the machinery of church and state and clerical abuses but promoted nonviolence and communalism. Eventually Bohemian descendents of Hus and adherents of German Pietism, who had emerged from the ravages of the Thirty Years' War (1618–48), came together inadvertently in the early eighteenth century. As
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallThe Journals of the Moravian Mission to Georgia, 1734–1737: From Herrnhut to Savannah ed. by Achim Kopp and John Thomas Scott (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USThe Journals of the Moravian Mission to Georgia, 1734–1737: From Herrnhut to Savannah ed. by Achim Kopp and John Thomas Scott (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®107772026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Lazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed Science to Accommodate Immigrants and Prevent Epidemics by David Barnes (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989346
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In March of 2020, the concept of "quarantine," once seemingly on the fringes of American culture, entered mainstream discourse. As the world was shutting down due to the exigencies of the COVID-19 pandemic, David Barnes, associate professor of the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, was studying the long history of quarantine in the City of Brotherly Love. The result is Lazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed Science to Accommodate Immigrants and Prevent Epidemics. By focusing on a single site, the Lazaretto quarantine station south of Philadelphia, Barnes's scholarship offers a compelling exploration of the political and medical history of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallLazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed Science to Accommodate Immigrants and Prevent Epidemics by David Barnes (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USLazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed Science to Accommodate Immigrants and Prevent Epidemics by David Barnes (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®87792026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo (review)
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Effective historians strive to ensure their scholarship is relevant to public audiences. Allen C. Guelzo, in his new book Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment, succeeds in doing just that. While our nation has survived economic depressions, wars, and contested elections, between 1861 and 1865, Abraham Lincoln struggled to lead the nation through the gravest calamity it has ever faced. What carried him through was his faith in democracy. In a departure from his traditional medium, narrative history, Guelzo offers readers a series of essays, meditating on Lincoln's relationship with democracy. The book is organized thematically, with each chapter addressing a specific tenet of democracy
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallOur Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USOur Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®82232026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World's Columbian Exposition by Zachary L. Brodt (review)
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The publication of Robert W. Rydell's All the World's a Fair (1984) birthed a cottage industry for historians to mine the importance of international expositions and fairgoers' responses to them. In the decades since, Bruno Giberti, Lawrence Samuel, Sarah Nilsen, Susanna W. Gold, Mary Elizabeth Boone, and others have filled in the picture, covering exhibitions from Philadelphia and San Francisco to Brussels and New York.1 Though no two were identical, all fairs were bound by a common purpose: to inspire awe and patriotism through industry, technology, and the built environment. In this welcome volume, Zachary L. Brodt revisits the familiar grounds of the 1893 Columbian Exposition but adds a Pennsylvanian twist: he
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallFrom the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World's Columbian Exposition by Zachary L. Brodt (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USFrom the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World's Columbian Exposition by Zachary L. Brodt (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®114892026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Artifacts of Mourning: Archaeology of the Historic Burial Ground of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia by George M. Leader (review)
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In 2016, a construction project along Arch Street in Philadelphia accidentally uncovered human remains. Following this discovery, a volunteer group undertook the task of documenting the disturbed burials, as the site was not protected under existing legislation. Ultimately, a professional Cultural Resource Management firm was brought in to complete excavations. Several hundred burials were documented as a result, providing a wealth of data regarding mortuary practices and material culture for the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century congregants and neighbors of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia.The focus of this book is on the artifacts recovered from the excavations at this eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallArtifacts of Mourning: Archaeology of the Historic Burial Ground of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia by George M. Leader (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USArtifacts of Mourning: Archaeology of the Historic Burial Ground of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia by George M. Leader (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®82902026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Rear Admiral Schley: An Extraordinary Life at Sea and on Shore by Robert A. Jones (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989350
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This final work of the late author, a civilian naval architect and Civil War novelist, is the first full-length biography of a remarkable yet relatively unknown nineteenth-century American naval officer, Winfield Scott Schley (1838–1911). A favorite son of Maryland, whose statue still adorns the State House in Annapolis, and a gifted raconteur popular with fellow "Old Salts" and the public, Schley is an obscurity in the twenty-first century. There are primarily two reasons, the first being the inevitable overshadowing by the epic world and cold wars, especially World War II, reducing fame for classic naval heroes to little beyond John Paul Jones and David Farragut. Second, which Jones credibly addresses, was the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallRear Admiral Schley: An Extraordinary Life at Sea and on Shore by Robert A. Jones (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USRear Admiral Schley: An Extraordinary Life at Sea and on Shore by Robert A. Jones (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®128562026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05The World War One Diary & Art of Doughboy Cpl. Harold W. Pierce: Duty, Terror and Survival ed. by William J. Welch (review)
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More than four million American soldiers, called doughboys, served during the First World War. Many of the soldiers kept diaries that described their day-to-day experiences as they faced the monotony and dangers of wartime life. These diaries have become very important documents for understanding what life was like for the doughboys on the Western front in 1917–18. The World War One Diary and Art of Doughboy Cpl. Harold W. Pierce: Duty, Terror and Survival, edited by William J. Welch, is a valuable account of the thoughts, emotions, camaraderie, and battle experiences of a nineteen-year-old soldier from Youngsville, Pennsylvania.Born in 1898, Harold Pierce saw many young men enlisting in the army after the American
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallThe World War One Diary & Art of Doughboy Cpl. Harold W. Pierce: Duty, Terror and Survival ed. by William J. Welch (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USThe World War One Diary & Art of Doughboy Cpl. Harold W. Pierce: Duty, Terror and Survival ed. by William J. Welch (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®79182026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh by John Gilbert McCurdy (review)
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John Gilbert McCurdy's Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh traces the life of British military and Anglican chaplain Robert Newburgh. Accused by British officers of being a "buggerer," Newburgh defended himself and his actions using Enlightenment ideas and revolutionary rhetoric. Analyzing court records and visual sources, McCurdy writes an outstanding microhistory of Newburgh's legal troubles. Vicious and Immoral is a significant and original contribution to the history of LGBTQ+ people and the history of the American Revolution.Robert Newburgh was an Anglican clergyman from Ireland. He studied at Trinity College and was commissioned as a chaplain in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallVicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh by John Gilbert McCurdy (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USVicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh by John Gilbert McCurdy (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®74612026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05Amish Women and the Great Depression by Katherine Jellison and Steven D. Reschly (review)
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Drive around Lancaster County on Routes 896, 30, 340, or 222, as well as its numerous backcountry roads, and you will find the landscape dotted with farms, many owned by the Amish. Their continued agricultural presence in the county, in addition to their expansion into small business, owes much to the resilience of previous generations during the Great Depression. Katherine Jellison and Steven Reschly contend in Amish Women and the Great Depression that the labor of Amish women—their minimal spending alongside their diverse agricultural and domestic production efforts—enabled their family farms to better withstand the Great Depression's economic hardships than other farming households. As Jellison and Reschley
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/476/image/coversmallAmish Women and the Great Depression by Katherine Jellison and Steven D. Reschly (review)2026-05-05text/htmlen-USAmish Women and the Great Depression by Katherine Jellison and Steven D. Reschly (review)2026-05-052026TWOProject MUSE®105882026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-05