Philadelphia Stories by C. Dallett Hemphill

Posted by on Sep 12, 2022 in | Comments Off on Philadelphia Stories by C. Dallett Hemphill Philadelphia Stories People and Their Places in Early America by C. Dallett Hemphill; edited by Rodney Hessinger and Daniel K. Richter University of Pennsylvania Press, 349 pp., hardcover $35 This original and captivating book was a labor of love, both for its author, the late C. Dallett Hemphill, and the 13 scholars who came together to finish the almost complete manuscript Hemphill had left...
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William Penn by Andrew R. Murphy

Posted by on Mar 6, 2020 in | Comments Off on William Penn by Andrew R. Murphy William Penn A Life by Andrew R. Murphy Oxford University Press, 460 pp., cloth $34.95 In this deeply researched and richly detailed volume, Andrew R. Murphy provides the fullest biographical study to date of Pennsylvania founder and first proprietor William Penn. The author has mined sources on both sides of the Atlantic to give a life-and-times accounting of Penn’s ardent Quakerism, colonial...
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Pennsylvania: A Military History by William A. Pencak, Christian B. Keller and Barbara A. Gannon

Posted by on Mar 13, 2017 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvania: A Military History by William A. Pencak, Christian B. Keller and Barbara A. Gannon Pennsylvania: A Military History by William A. Pencak, Christian B. Keller and Barbara A. Gannon Westholme Publishing, 304 pp., cloth $35 In 16 incisive and insightful original essays covering wars among Indians to the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, the authors reveal a Pennsylvania that was and is very different from the “peaceable kingdom” image of art and myth. Indeed,...
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