Spring 2025

From the Executive Director

From the Executive Director

By Andrea W. Lowery

Editor’s Letter

By Kyle R. Weaver

Our Documentary Heritage

The Arrest of Philip Skene

By Richard C. Saylor

Marking Time

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, Famed Orator of the Civil War Era

By Alli Davis

A Place in Time

Irish-Townsend House

By Jennifer Thornton

Features

The Hanna’s Town Resolves

By Brady J. Crytzer

Features, Interview

Pennsylvania and the American Revolution: An Interview with Gordon S. Wood

By William C. Kashatus

Features

A Beacon of Liberty for the Enslaved: 250 Years of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society

By Peter Durantine

Features

From Fort Sumter to Appomattox and Back: The Civil War Career of Samuel W. Crawford

By Robert D. Hill

Hands-On History

A Quarter-Millennium of Charcoal Burning at Hopewell Furnace

By Thomas J. Straka

Trailheads

Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania 50

By Patrick C. Morrison

Book Review

Cradle of Conservation by Allen Dieterich-Ward

By Char Miller

Book Review

Philadelphia: A Narrative History by Paul Kahan

By Isabel Steven

Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter

Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Spring 2025

By PA Heritage Staff

Wish You Were Here

Edward Holland Blacksmith Shop

By John P. Wood