Learn about grand juries in the early republic, the insidious effects of the 1850 fugitive slave law, the influence of President Buchanan's "right-hand man," the failed relationship between legendary architect Louis Kahn and historic Congregation Mikveh Israel, and more in the April 2016 issue of PMHB.
Contents
Articles
by Linda Myrsiades
by Marcia C. Robinson
by Michael Todd Landis
Notes and Documents
by Eugene J. Johnson and Ranana Dine
Book Reviews
Dorwart and Lyons, Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh, 1680–1762: Building the Quaker Community of Haddonfield, NJ, 1701–1762
by Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner
Foster, ed., Women in Early America
by Jean R. Soderlund
Reinberger and McLean, The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America
by John E. Crowley
by Ross A. Newton
by Aston Gonzalez
Peatman, The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and Harris, Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration among Civil War Veterans
by Jennifer M. Murray
Hodes, Mourning Lincoln
by James G. Mundy Jr.
Conn and McGuire, eds., Sisterly Love: Women of Note in Pennsylvania History
by Marion Roydhouse
by Anne E. Krulikowski
Puckett and Lloyd, Becoming Penn: The Pragmatic American University, 1950–2000
by John F. Bauman
by Shaolu Yu