What does citizenship mean? What are its rights and obligations? Who should be welcomed as a citizen and who excluded? These questions have come to the forefront of the current presidential race, but anxiety and controversy about what citizenship means have been a common refrain in America’s—and Pennsylvania’s—history. This issue of Legacies explores how Pennsylvanians have understood, exercised, and fought for citizenship from the earliest days of the republic to the present day. 

Legacies is FREE to read online until October 26! 

Contents include:

• Note from the Editor: Defining Citizenship in the Keystone State | Rachel Moloshok

• Window on the Collections: To Make an American | Hali Han

• Language, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Early Republic | Birte Pfleger

• "The Same Power which Protects the White Man Should Protect the Black": Pennsylvania, Black Citizenship Rights, and Slavery in the 19th Century | Andrew Diemer

• Cracking the Door: "Mr. Immigration" and the Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956-57 | Adam T. Bentz

• Making Loyal Pennsylvanians: Citizenship Education from the Founding of the Commonwealth to Modern Times | William W. Cutler III

• Teachers' Turn: Questions about Citizenship, Then and Now | Edward W. Johnson

• Generations: Researching United States Citizenship in Pennsylvania | Jefferson M. Moak

• Legacies for Kids | Christopher A. Brown

• Book and Website Reviews | Sarah Duda

• Food for Thought: The Fifth Way: Journey to Citizenship | Judith Bernstein-Baker, Esq.

Pennsylvania Legacies, HSP's semi-annual illustrated history magazine, explores a variety of topics in Pennsylvania history for the curious reader. Legacies is available as a benefit to Friends of HSP. Friends of HSP at the Researcher level receive a printed copy of each issue. Friends of HSP at the Patron and above level also recieve digital access to past issues. Legacies is also available as a separate subscription.