The Forgotten Revolution: Women and Telegraphy in Pennsylvania

Today, few would even begin to doubt that society is in the midst of a global telecommunications revolution, brought about by the introduction of new technologies such as the Internet and wireless communications. This revolution, however, has deep historical roots, dating to the 1840s with the building of the world’s first wired network of digital communication – the telegraph...
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Elizabeth Meyer Flag at Pennsylvania Military Museum

No less than two dozen communities throughout the country claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day and Boalsburg, Centre County, continues to staunchly defends its claim. According to local tradition Emma Hunter and Sophie Keller met at a cemetery adjacent to the village’s Zion Lutheran Church on an October Sunday in 1864 to place flowers on the grave of Hunter’s father Reuben, a physician who...
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