And They’re Off! Pennsylvania’s Horse Racing Tradition

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on And They’re Off! Pennsylvania’s Horse Racing Tradition Thoroughbred racing doesn’t normally look to Pennsylvania for its next champion, but a small colt may have changed all that. In November 2003, Smarty Jones, foaled in Chester County two years earlier, ran his first competitive race at Philadelphia Park, one of the state’s four licensed horse race tracks. Six months later, on Saturday, May 1, 2004, the plucky little horse became the...
read more

Two Gentlemen of the China Trade

Posted by on Nov 24, 2013 in | Comments Off on Two Gentlemen of the China Trade The American Revolution ended with the surrender of the British at the Virginia tobacco port of Yorktown on October 19,1781. For merchant traders eager to engage in commerce with China, the war would not be over until a treaty with Great Britain recognizing American independence was signed. The British Acts of Trade had forbidden the import of any goods into the colonies that had not passed...
read more

Bookshelf

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf A Century of Forest Resources Education at Penn State: Serving Our Forests, Waters, Wildlife, and Wood Industries By Henry D. Gerhold Published by the Penn State University Press, 2007; 280 pages, cloth, $35.00 A Century of Forest Resources Education at Penn State: Serving Our Forests, Waters, Wildlife, and Wood Industries chronicles the origin and development of the Pennsylvania State...
read more

The Union League of Philadelphia and the Civil War

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on The Union League of Philadelphia and the Civil War
read more