Ike’s Sanctuary: The Eisenhower Farm in Gettysburg, An Oasis from the Pressures of the Presidency

Posted by on May 8, 2015 in | Comments Off on Ike’s Sanctuary: The Eisenhower Farm in Gettysburg, An Oasis from the Pressures of the Presidency In the spring of 1915 Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower (1890-1969), a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, visited the Gettysburg battlefield along with the rest of his class. The cadets had come to study Union and Confederate troop movements in an engagement that represented the farthest penetration of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s army onto northern soil before the Army of the Potomac repelled...
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President Eisenhower’s Birthday Party in Hershey

Posted by on May 8, 2015 in | Comments Off on President Eisenhower’s Birthday Party in Hershey Most Americans preparing to vote in the 1952 presidential election were eager for the Korean War (1950-53) to end. As the campaign neared its conclusion, Republican Party candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) declared, “If elected, I shall go to Korea.” This pledge stirred hopes that he would find a way to end the fighting quickly. The nation elected the legendary World War II...
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Editor’s Letter

Posted by on May 8, 2015 in | Comments Off on Editor’s Letter The 50th anniversary of The State Museum and Archives Complex gives us the opportunity at PHMC to commemorate the significance of not only our particular architectural treasure but also the many buildings, furnishings and designs of a similar mode created in the Keystone State during the mid-20th century. Accordingly, Midcentury Modern in Pennsylvania has been adopted as the agency’s...
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Ninety-Five Years of the Pennsylvania Society: A “Who’s Who” of Business and Politics

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Ninety-Five Years of the Pennsylvania Society: A “Who’s Who” of Business and Politics From industrialist Andrew Carnegie to television personality Mister Rogers, The Pennsylvania Society has both honored and drawn its energy from prominent personages of the Commonwealth’s civic, business, academic, entertain­ment, and government circles for nearly a century. Best known for its legendary annual December awards dinner that lasts for but a few hours each year, the organization...
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Shorts

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts “Abstraction to Figuration: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Pincus Collection” is an exhibition of works of art drawn from the collection of David and Gerry Pincus currently on view at the Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University. An exhi­bition of post-1945 American painting, sculpture, and photography, “Abstraction to...
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Bookshelf

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf The Realignment of Pennsylvania Politics Since 1960: Two-Party Competition in a Battleground State by Renée M. Lamis published by the Penn State University Press, 2009; 398 pages, cloth, $65.00. The political party system in the United States has periodically undergone major realignments at various critical junctures in the nation’s history. The American Civil War boosted the Republican...
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