Animal
Tracks of the Great Lakes States : Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota,
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin
by Chris Stall, Steve Whitney (Illustrator)
Brandywine
Battlefield Park: Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide
by Thomas J. McGuire, Craig A. Benner, Kyle R. Weaver
Paperback from Stackpole Books
Book Published: July, 2001
Big
Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001
by Kenneth Warren
Hardcover from Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt)
Book Published: July, 2001
Chester
County Historical Society
by Peter B. Schiffer
Packed with useful information about historic Chester County, one of
the original sections of Pennsylvania, this small, photo illustrated book
introduces the distinctive land, buildings, furnishings and library which
comprise the Chester County Historical Society in the old Quaker-settled
town of West Chester. Contents include the 1704 Brinton House, 1727 Collins
Mansion, 1790 David Townsend house, and log constructed Hopper House and
barn as well as local pottery, needlework, pictures, dishes, toys and furniture
used in the county through the nineteenth century. Since many American
families have ancestors from this region, the library is an important resource
for genealogy and historical studies.
Paperback: 69 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.25 x
9.50 x 6.00
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.; ; (January 1, 2000)
ISBN: 0686703413
Chester County, Pennsylvania, Inventories
by Margaret B. Schiffer
Listed under Pennsylvania Genealogy
Celebrating
200 Years: The Butler County, Pennsylvania Bicentennial
County
Courthouses of Pennsylvania : A Guide
by Oliver P. Williams
Buried Genealogical Data: A Complete List of Addressed Letters Left
in the Post Offices of Philadelphia, Chester, Lancaster...
Listed under New Jersey Genealogy
Bound to Be a Soldier : The Letters of Private James T. Miller, 111th
Pennsylvania Infantry, 1861-1864.
by James Todd Miller, Galen R. Wilson (Editor), Jedediah Mannis (Editor)
Listed under Civil
War Pennsylvania
Discoursing
Sweet Music: Town Bands and Community Life in Turn-Of-The Century Pennsylvania
by Kenneth Kreitner
Amphibians and Reptiles of Pennsylvania and the Northeast (Comstock
Book in Hereptology)
by Arthur C. Hulse et al.
Listed under Reptiles
The Delaware Finns Or The First Permanent Settlements in Pennsylvania,
Delaware, West New Jersey and Eastern Part of Maryland
Listed under Delaware History
Erie
Maritime Museum and US Brig Niagara: Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide
by Chris J. Magoc, Christopher J. Magoc
(Paperback -- March 2001)
Early
Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region
by John Stuart Richards
Book Description The Images of America Series presents a remarkable
look into the history of the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania through
an extraordinary pictorial tour guide. This book is a journey into a world
that was once very familiar. These vintage photgraphs of collieries, breakers,
miners, drivers, and breaker boys illuminate the dark of the anthracite
mines. The pictures of miners, roof falls, mules, and equipment deep underground
tell the story of the hard lives lived around the hard coal. Pictures caputures
scenes of the coal miners when their faces were blackened by coal and when
helmet lamps lit by fire that are no longer parts of the everyday lives
of miners in the region.
Paperback: 128 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.32 x
9.74 x 6.34
Publisher: Arcadia; (June 2002)
ISBN: 0738509787
The
Farm : Life in Colonial Pennsylvania (Adventures in Colonial America)
by James E. Knight, Karen Milone (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 9-12
A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania,
1896
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Fiction, suitable for children - listed under Dear
America Series
From
Sugar Camps to Star Barns : Rural Life and Landscape in a Western Pennsylvania
Community ...
by Sally Ann McMurry
Book Description Rural Pennsylvania's landscapes are evocative,
richly textured testimonies to the lives and skills of generations of builders—architects
as well as local builders and craft workers. Farmhouses and barns, silos
and fences, even field patterns attest to how residents over the years
have a sense of place that was not only functional but also comfortable
and aesthetically appropriate for the time. From Sugar Camps to Star
Barns tells the story of one such place, a landscape that evolved in
southwestern Pennsylvania's Somerset County.
Five
Smooth Stones : Hope's Diary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776, (My America)
by Kristiana Gregory
Hardcover from Scholastic
Book Published: February, 2001
Flight 427: Anatomy of an Air Disaster
by Gerry Byrne
Listed under Aviation
Disasters
Growing
Up Italian in God's Country
by Patricia Costa Viglucci
Paperback from Stone Pine Books-Patri Pubns
Book Published: 01 September, 2001
Growing
Up in Coal Country
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Hardcover from Houghton Mifflin Co
Book Published: October, 1996
Gettysburg:
A Battlefield Guide (This Hallowed Ground, Guides to Civil War Battlefields
Series)
by Mark Grimsley, Brooks D. Simpson
Paperback from Bison Bks Corp
Book Published: June, 1999
Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg Pennsylvania, 1863 (A Civil War
Watercolor Map Series)
by Earl B. McElfresh (Map)
Listed under Battle of Gettysburg
A
Gazetteer of the State of Pennsylvania
by Thomas Gordon (Editor)
Gunsmiths
of Lancaster and York Counties, Pennsylvania
by James B. Whisker, Stacy B.C. Wood
History
of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : To Which Is Prefixed a Brief Sketch
of the Early History of Pennsylvania
by I. Daniel Rupp
History
of Berks County, Pennsylvania
by M. L. Montgomery
Into
the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
by James H. Merrell
Although the American West was ultimately won by killing nearly every
Indian who got in the way, the initial contacts between native and Euro-American
cultures were for the most part peaceful, defined by the social and geopolitical
norms set by the land's original inhabitants. Into the American Woods examines
how semiprofessional negotiators defined a "middle ground" in frontier
Pennsylvania where schisms between Anglos and native Americans were temporarily
appeased for mutual economic and political gain.
English colonial administrators, seeking to purchase land, establish
trade, and avert conflict, became dependent on opportunists at the colony's
edge, such as German entrepreneur Conrad Weiser, or trader George Groghan,
to negotiate with the Delaware, Shawnee, Iroquois, and other regional tribes
and bands. Uninterested in learning the ways of new arrivals, the native
peoples sent sons of mixed European and Indian heritage or Christian converts
to negotiate on their behalf. By trading wampum, using sign language, and
scribbling pictographs, these go-betweens developed ambiguously effective
means of bridging cultural divides. Negotiators, however, did not fully
trust each other's intentions and maintained the prejudices of their own
cultures. The French-Indian Wars lessened the effectiveness of councils
or other forms of negotiation and tensions between Anglo and Native American
civilizations intensified, culminating in the infamous "Paxton Boys" massacre
of 1763. Each stage of Merrell's lively, extremely well-researched analysis
is filled with colorful "woods lore"--anecdotes often comic in nature,
focusing on the rampant alcoholism and bawdiness of frontier life--which
illustrate the personalities of key negotiators, as well as the strategies
and conditions by which White and Native America conversed in the early
18th century, an era when the wampum belt carried more power on the frontier
than the flintlock. --John Anderson - Amazon.com
Paperback from W.W. Norton & Company
Book Published: January, 2000 |
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The
Johnstown Flood
by David McCullough
The history of civil engineering may sound boring, but in David McCullough's
hands it is, well, riveting. His award-winning histories of the Brooklyn
Bridge and the Panama Canal were preceded by this account of the disastrous
dam failure that drowned Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1889. Written while
the last survivors of the flood were still alive, McCullough's narrative
weaves the stories of the town, the wealthy men who owned the dam, and
the forces of nature into a seamless whole. His account is unforgettable:
"The wave kept on coming straight toward him, heading for the very heart
of the city. Stores, houses, trees, everything was going down in front
of it, and the closer it came, the bigger it seemed to grow.... The height
of the wall of water was at least thirty-six feet at the center.... The
drowning and devastation of the city took just about ten minutes." A powerful,
definitive book, and a tribute to the thousands who died in America's worst
inland flood. --Mary Ellen Curtin - Amazon.com
Paperback: 302 pages
Simon & Schuster (Paper); ISBN: 0671207148; reprint
edition (January 1987)
Month-By-Month
Gardening in Pennsylvania
Nine
Alive: The Miraculous Rescue of the Pennsylvania Miners
by The Associated Press
Nine
for Nine: The Pennsylvania Mine Rescue Miracle
by Andrews Morton
Southern Chester County, PA In Postcards
by Geny, Paul Rodebough, Martha Carson Gentry
Listed under Collectible
Postcards
Langhorn
& Mary: A 19th Century American Love Story
by Priscilla Stone Sharp
Hardcover from Amber Books
Book Published: 27 March, 2003
Legends
from the Frosty Sons of Thunder
by William Trall Doncaster
Somerset County History
The narrative contained in this volume is a somewhat personal one.
It was the result of a privileged conversation with one of America's most
revered authors and the fact that I was a professor in the history department
of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and living in Somerset, Pennsylvania,
at the time. It was the winter of 1968. Then president Dr. Theodore Bindle
summoned me to his office. He had an assignment for me. David McCullough,
author of The Johnstown Flood, was to be a... The Author
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x 8.75 x 6.00
Publisher: Brandylane; ; (September 1998)
ISBN: 1883911257
Letters
to the Editor: Two Hundred Years in the Life of an American Town
by Gerard Stropnicky, Tom Byrn, James Goode, Jerry Matheny
Bloomsburg (Pa.)
Paperback from Touchstone Books
Book Published: June, 1998
One
Hundred Years of the Sussex Register and County of Sussex : Record of Historical,
Biographical, Industrial, and Statistical Events
by Whitfield Gibbs (Editor)
The Pennsylvania Impressionists
by Thomas C. Folk
Listed under American Art
History
The
Pennsylvania Barn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America
by Robert F. Ensminger, Gregory Conniff, Edward K. Muller, David Schuyler
Paperback from Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Book Published: 01 March, 2003
Picture
Of Lycoming County
by Pennsylvania Writers' Project
Pittsburgh
(Pa's Cultural & Natural Heritage Series)
by Ruth Hoover Seitz, Blair Seitz, Myron Cope
Hardcover from Rb Books
Book Published: March, 2000
Philadelphia's
River Wards (Images of America)
by George J. Holmes
Paperback from Arcadia
Book Published: September, 2003
Philadelphia's
Cultural Landscape : The Sartain Family Legacy
by Katharine Martinez (Editor), Page Talbott (Editor)
The
Longrifles of Western Pennsylvania: Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties
by Richard F. Rosenberger, Charles Kaufman (Contributor), Bill Owen
(Photographer)
Pittsburgh
Revealed : Photographs Since 1850
by Jan Beatty (Editor)
Pittsburgh
Then and Now
by Arthur G. Smith
The Pennsylvania Railroad: The 1940S-1950s
by Don, Jr. Ball
Listed under American Railroads
The
Plants of Pennsylvania : An Illustrated Manual
Union
County Pennsylvania : A Celebration of History
Roadside Geology of Pennsylvania (Roadside Geology Series)
by Bradford B. Van Diver
Listed under Roadside Geology
Smokestacks
and Black Diamonds: A History of Carbon County, Pennsylvania
by Joan Campion
Paperback: 300 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x
10.75 x 8.25
Publisher: Canal History & Technology Press; ; (March
1998)
ISBN: 0930973194
Out of Print - Try Used BooksSusquehanna
Heartland (Pennsylvania's Cultural and Natural Heritage)
by Ruth Hoover Seitz, Blair Seitz (Photographer)
Sweet
Land of Liberty: The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County,
Pennsylvania
by Francis S. Fox
Book Description:
It is often said that the American Revolution was a conservative revolution,
but in many parts of the British colonies the Revolution was anything but
conservative. This book follows the Revolution in Pennsylvania's backcountry
through the experiences of eighteen men and women who lived in Northampton
County during these years of turmoil.
"Fox's account will startle many readers for whom the Revolution symbolizes
the high-minded pursuit of liberty. In 1774, Northampton County was the
second largest of Pennsylvania's eleven counties, comprising more than
2,500 square miles, three towns (Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton), and
some 15,000 people. When the Revolution broke out, militias took control.
Frontier justice replaced the rule of law as zealous patriots preoccupied
themselves not with fighting the British but with seizing local political
power and persecuting their pacifist neighbors.
"Sweet Land of Liberty reawakens the Revolution in Northampton County
with sketches of men and women caught up in it. Seldom is this story told
from the vantage point of common folks, let alone those in the backcountry.
In Fox's hands, we see in these individuals an altogether more disturbing
Revolution than we have ever reckoned with before.
Hardcover: 212 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.89 x
9.32 x 6.29
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Trd); ; (November
2000)
ISBN: 0271020628
Rum
Punch & Revolution: Taverngoing & Public Life in Eighteenth Century
Philadelphia
by Peter Thompson
Set Up Running : The Life of a Pennsylvania Railroad Engineman 1904-1949
by John W. Orr, James D. Porterfield (Introduction)
Listed under American Railroads
Settlement
of Germantown, Pennsylvania and the Beginning of German Emigration to North
America
by Samuel W. Pennypacker
Hardcover from Ayer Co Pub
Book Published: February, 1969
Special Order
Standing in the Light : The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan,
Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 (Dear America)
by Mary Pope Osborne
listed under Dear America
Series
Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad : The Photographs of William
H. Rau
by William Herman Rau (Photographer), et al
Listed under American Railroads
WAITING
FOR THE LORD: Nineteenth Century Black Communities in Susquehanna County
by Debra Adleman
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
- The Eve of War
by Edward L. Ayers, Anne S. Rubin
Listed under Civil
War Pennsylvania
The Winter of Red Snow : The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane
Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 (Dear America)
by Kristiana Gregory
Fiction, suitable for children - listed under Dear
America Series
"We
Have It Damn Hard Out Here": The Civil War Letters of Sergeant Thomas W.
Smith, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry
by Thomas W. Smith, Eric J. Wittenberg
Hardcover from Kent State Univ Pr
Book Published: May, 1999
Clockmakers and Watchmakers of Lancaster County
by Stacy B. C. Wood
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