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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 140 (2016) through current issueLatest Articles: The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and BiographyTWOProject MUSE®The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography2169-85460031-4587Latest articles in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Greatest Hit of the Season: The Geary Thespian Corps and the Union’s Culture Industry during the Civil War
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983803
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As christmas approached in 1861, the camp of the 28th Pennsylvania at Point of Rocks, Maryland, on the Potomac River bustled with activity. The men of the regiment, recruited and commanded by Colonel John W. Geary, had experienced plenty of skirmishing in the opening months of the Civil War. But these men were not mobilizing to attack or repel their Confederate foes. Geary had “ordered 500 feet of boards” from Frederick, Corporal William Roberts Jr. informed his sister, and the soldiers were using the lumber to build a stage. Roberts asked his sister to send theatrical “properties”—“one or two old ‘shocking bad hats,’ & coats, also pants; any thing at all would be acceptable; the worser the better.” He announced
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/724/image/coversmallGreatest Hit of the Season: The Geary Thespian Corps and the Union’s Culture Industry during the Civil War2026-02-20text/htmlen-USGreatest Hit of the Season: The Geary Thespian Corps and the Union’s Culture Industry during the Civil War2026-02-202026TWOProject MUSE®1560002026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-20Stitching the Steel, Making Peace with the Wolf: The Life and Art of Mildred T. Johnstone
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983804
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Mildred (milly) johnstone (1900–1988) was a remarkable woman.1 Anaïs Nin, diarist and feminist, urged Milly to write a memoir about her fascinating life. But, as Milly put it, “I’m too busy living it [my life]!”2 Fiercely independent, she openly resisted the restrictive expectations she faced as the wife of a Bethlehem Steel executive: “No diamonds, minks or bridge” for her.3 She was a liberal who endorsed Planned Parenthood and educated women about contraception beginning in the mid-1930s. In 1939 she promoted a peace pageant with modern dance innovator Ruth St. Denis. Her core identity was as an artist, initially as a student and practitioner of dance who devoted herself to disciplined studies with St. Denis. In
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/724/image/coversmallStitching the Steel, Making Peace with the Wolf: The Life and Art of Mildred T. Johnstone2026-02-20text/htmlen-USStitching the Steel, Making Peace with the Wolf: The Life and Art of Mildred T. Johnstone2026-02-202026TWOProject MUSE®1128692026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-20”I should be able to raise hell again”: How the Coxe Estates Navigated Energy Transitions and Strip-Mining Regulations in the Anthracite Region, 1945–1968
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983805
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“At present the [anthracite] Industry has no public image except that created by the ‘Do-Gooders.’”1In a 1962 letter to Raymond Carson, the president of the Pennsylvania Economic League (a civic research organization advocating for increased efficiency in public spending and economic policy), Daniel Coxe, the agent for an organization of heirs to a Northeast Pennsylvania mining fortune and expansive land holdings, painted a dire picture of the once-mighty anthracite industry.2The enormous coal reserves are, in my opinion, worthless with the constant shrinking of production tonnage of which, as you know, is at least 60% from strippings. In fact, in the Hazleton Area, 90%. The only operating underground mines
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/724/image/coversmall”I should be able to raise hell again”: How the Coxe Estates Navigated Energy Transitions and Strip-Mining Regulations in the Anthracite Region, 1945–19682026-02-20text/htmlen-US”I should be able to raise hell again”: How the Coxe Estates Navigated Energy Transitions and Strip-Mining Regulations in the Anthracite Region, 1945–19682026-02-202026TWOProject MUSE®1094302026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-20