Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter

Posted by on Jun 8, 2020 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter Topics in the Winter 2020 Newsletter: Former State Senator Kury Named Director Emeritus of PHF Board PHF Partners with Pennsylvania Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial Preserve Pennsylvania’s History  ...
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Other Recent Releases

Posted by on Aug 22, 2017 in | 0 comments Gifford Pinchot Selected Writings edited by Char Miller Penn State University Press, 264 pp., cloth $74.95, paper $24.95 Pinchot (1865–1946) was a key figure in the conservation movement of the early 20th century, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service, and two-time governor of Pennsylvania. Environmental historian Miller, author of two previous books on Pinchot, has gathered and annotated a...
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CCC Worker Statue, Pennsylvania Lumber Museum

Posted by on Aug 22, 2017 in | 0 comments America’s woodlands were still in recovery from deforestation when the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was established in 1933 as one of several work relief programs initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. The program achieved two ends with a single effort by giving young men the opportunity to work to provide income for their unemployed families while simultaneously...
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The Ethnic Factor: Backbone of the Commonwealth

Posted by on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on The Ethnic Factor: Backbone of the Commonwealth “… that those of our own, or other nations, that are inclined to transport themselves or families beyond the seas, may find another country …” – William Penn   The story of Pennsylvania can­not be adequately told without great emphasis upon its ethnic di­versity. More than simply an incidental feature, from the first contacts between Europeans and Indians to...
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