Published on Historical Society of Pennsylvania (https://hsp.org)


PMHB, April 2016

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

 
Front Matter
 
 
Articles
 
A Tale of a Whiskey Rebellion Judge: William Paterson, Grand Jury Charges, and the Trials of the Whiskey Rebels
by Linda Myrsiades
 
The Tragedy of Edward "Ned" Davis: Entrepreneurial Fraud in Maryland in the Wake of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law
by Marcia C. Robinson
 
Old Buck's Lieutenant: Glancy Jones, James Buchanan, and the Antebellum Northern Democracy
by Michael Todd Landis
 
 
Notes and Documents
 
Mikveh Israel and Louis Kahn: New Information
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
 
Dellape, America's First Chaplain: The Life and Times of Reverend Jacob Duché
by Ross A. Newton
 
Cobb, Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century
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
 
Vitiello, Engineering Philadelphia: The Sellers Family and the Industrial Metropolis
by Anne E. Krulikowski
 
Puckett and Lloyd, Becoming Penn: The Pragmatic American University, 1950–2000
by John F. Bauman
 
Wilson, Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown: Space, Place, and Struggle
by Shaolu Yu