PHILADELPHIA, PA - The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) is pleased to announce the April 2017 issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (PMHB) is free to read online through May 9, 2017.

This issue explores the career of Moravian snuff maker Christopher Demuth, the Civil War politics of Pennsylvania governor Andrew Curtin, and newly discovered antislavery writings of William Southeby.

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Contents include:

Articles

Christopher Demuth: From "Single Brother" to Celebrated Snuff Maker | Diane Wenger

Andrew Curtin and the Politics of Union | Jack Furniss

Notes and Documents

"To Friends and All Whom It May Concerne": William Southeby's Rediscovered 1696 Antislavery Protest | Nicholas P. Wood and Jean R. Soderlund

Book Reviews

Tomlin, A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life | Sonia Hazard

Crabtree, Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution | Neva Jean Specht

Griffin et al., eds., Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era | Christopher J. Bilodeau

Aden, Upon the Ruins of Liberty: Slavery, the President's House at Independence National Historic Park, and Public Memory | Seth C. Bruggeman

Foner, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad | Cheryl Janifer LaRoche

Kashatus, Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and the Civil War: "A Trial of Principle and Faith" | Steven Gimber

Netsky, Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia | Meredith R. Aska McBride

Kobus, City of Steel: How Pittsburth Became the World's Steelmaking Capital during the Carnegie Era | John N. Ingham

Wolfinger, Running the Rails: Capital and Labor in the Philadelphia Transit Industry | Marc Kagan