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


PMHB, April 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Front Matter

Articles

Pennsylvania, the Militia, and the Second Amendment
by Nathan R. Kozuskanich

Federalist Decline and Despair on the Pennsyvanian Frontier: Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry
by Robert Battistini

"I shall speak in Philadelphia": Emma Goldman and the Free Speech League
by Bill Lynskey

Book Reviews

Slaughter, The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition
by Jean R. Soderlund

Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Phillip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America
by David Jaffee

Lockhart, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army
by Tom Fleming

Daughan, If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy—From the Revolution to the War of 1812
by Michael J. Crawford

Martin, Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-class Ideology, 1800-1860
by Patricia Dockman Anderson

Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
by Daniel Dupre

Wolensky and Keating, Tragedy at Avondale: The Causes, Consequences, and Legacy of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry's Most Deadly Mining Disaster, September 6, 1869
by Michael Knies

Healey, The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry, 1860-1902: Economic Cycles, Business Decision Making, and Regional Dynamics
by Kenneth C. Wolensky

Kuklick, Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine
by Anita L. Allen