The January issue of PMHB features articles onthe experiences of David Henry White, a young, free Black sailor kidnapped onto Confederate ship Alabama; how the women of St. Thomas African Episcopal Church used their connections throughout mid-Atlantic to ensure funds raised went to sick and injured Black soldiers; how a group of students, with the help of the IRA, revealed abuse at, and ultimately secured closing of, Educational Home in West Philadelphia; and the attempts of a local school board to limit discussion of gender and sexuality in recent Pennsylvania history.

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The Cope Line Voyages of David Henry White: Evidence from the Cope Family Archive

Andrew Sillen

Louisa Jacobs and the St. Thomas Sanitary Committee Fair of 1864

Susan Goodier

"We Have No Tribes": How Indigenous Boys Helped Close Philadelphia's Indian Boarding School

Lena Lannutti

The Culture Wars Come to Pennsylvania: The Elizabethtown Area School Board and the "Pro-Family Resolution, 1996-1997

Gerald J. Huesken Jr.