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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf The Mills of Manayunk by Cynthia J. Shelton The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986 (227 pages, cloth, $26.50) Part of the Johns Hopkins University Press’s Studies in Industry and Society, this book examines the evolution of the Philadelphia region’s in­dustrialization, which was marked by a degree of social stress and conflict experienced by no other significant Ameri­can textile...
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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980 by Dennis C. Dickerson State University of New York Press, 1986 (323 pages, cloth, $44.50) This volume in the State University of New York’s series of Afro-American studies examines in depth the century-long struggle of Black laborers in the iron and steel industry of western Pennsylva­nia. In the process it shows...
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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh by Rob Ruck University of Illinois Press, 1987 (238 pages, cloth, $21.95) From the Roaring Twenties through the Korean War, sports played a major role in shaping Pittsburgh’s Black community. Focusing on these years, Sandlot Seasons reveals how sandlot, amateur and professional athletics helped Black Pittsburgh realize its potential for...
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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf The World of William Penn edited by Richard S. Dunn and Mary Maples Dunn University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986 (421 pages, cloth, $29.95) A collection of twenty es­says by a distinguished panel of specialists in British and American history, The World of William Penn explores the com­plex political, economic, intel­lectual, religious and social environment in which William Penn lived and...
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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf The Devil and Dr. Barnes by Howard Greenfeld Viking, 1987 (306 pages, cloth, $19.95) The colorful and bizarre­ – not to mention egotistical, irascible and eccentric – Alfred C. Barnes was a visionary individual whose collection formed the unusual and con­troversial Barnes Foundation in Merion. Born into an impover­ished Philadelphia family, Barnes helped invent a popu­lar medicine...
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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf Federal Philadelphia, 1785-1825: The Athens of the Western World by Beatrice B. Garvan Philadelphia Museum of Art (96 pages, paper, $12.95) While thousands of mu­seum exhibitions, special commemorative booklets and scholarly studies celebrated the bicentennial of the United States Constitution by focus­ing on the delegates and their Convention two centuries ago, or the impact of the landmark...
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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf Penn’s Example to the Nations: 300 Years of the Holy Experiment by Robert Grant Crist, editor Pennsylvania Council of Churches, 1987 (266 pages, paper, $6.00) A celebration of Pennsylva­nia’s rich heritage of religious diversity and toleration, this collection of twenty-three original works introduces the reader to the Commonwealth’s three centuries of religious traditions and...
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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf Reading Furnace, 1736 by Estelle Cremers Reading Furnace Press, 1986 (193 pages, paper, $10.95) Built in 1736 on the banks of the south branch of the French Creek as an expansion of the furnace on Rock Run (circa 1720) at Coventryville, Reading Furnace was one of the earliest furnaces established in Penn­sylvania. Reading Furnace flourished for forty-two years, until 1778, a relatively...
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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf Pennsylvania’s Historic Places by Ruth Hoover Seitz Good Books, 1989 (176 pages, cloth, $29.95) Engaging narrative by Ruth Hoover Seitz and stunning photographs by Blair Seitz – always memorable, often haunting – hallmark Pennsyl­vania’s Historic Places as “a window on the past.” Show­casing attractions throughout the Commonwealth that recall the people,...
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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf James Buchanan’s Wheatland by Sally Smith Cahalan The James Buchanan Foundation, 1988 (100 pages, paper, $7.95) A handsomely designed guidebook, James Buchanan’s Wheatland promotes an under­standing of the nation’s fif­teenth president’s and his family’s life during his owner­ship of the Lancaster County property between 1849 and 1868. Although a lifetime bachelor,...
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