The Sacred and the Secular: Immigrant Values in Pennsylvania History

Posted by John Bodnar on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on The Sacred and the Secular: Immigrant Values in Pennsylvania History Since its founding, the history of Pennsylvania has sprung from the successive waves of immigrants who have settled within its boundaries. Colonial Pennsylvania was peopled by English, Scotch-Irish, German, Swe­dish, and Welsh arrivals. Germans continued to come after 1800 but were joined by thousands from Ireland and Wales. With industrial expansion after 1870, Hungarians, Lithu­anians, Poles...
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Cricket, Anyone?

Posted by Tom Melville on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Cricket, Anyone? Today, the grand old cricket clubs of Germantown, Merion, and Philadelphia, with their handsome clubhouses and carefully groomed grounds, recall the enthusiasm for the game of cricket that many wealthy families dis­played in the nineteenth cen­tury. If the stately, ivy-covered walls of these venerable club­houses could speak, they would tell the proud and re­markable story of cricket in...
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