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


PMHB, October 2015

 

 

Energy in Pennsylvania History
 

Frontmatter

Editorial
by Tamara Gaskell

Articles

Introduction
by Brian C. Black and Donna J. Rilling

Review Essay: Energy in Pennsylvania History
by Brian C. Black, Ann Norton Greene, and Marcy Ladson

Abundance, Dependence, and Trauma at Philadelphia's Point Breeze Petroleum Refinery: A Mirror on the History of Pennsylvania's Oil Industry
by Fredric L. Quivik

"New and Untried Hands": Thomas Edison's Electrification of Pennsylvania Towns, 1883–85
by Louis Carlat and Daniel Weeks

Boom and Bust in Pittsburgh Natural Gas History: Development, Policy, and Environmental Effects, 1878–1920
by Joel A. Tarr and Karen Clay

Book Reviews: The Ubiquity of Coal in the Mid-Atlantic
by Allen Dieterich-Ward

Hidden Gems

Houses No Warmer than Barns: Peter Kalm on Fireplaces and Firewood in Colonial Pennsylvania
by Karen Reeds

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
by Leah S. Glaser

Locating Philadelphia's Water-Powered Past
by Donna J. Rilling

Anthracite Country Reaches for the World, 1851
by Peter A. Shulman

Roadside America and the Engine(s) of Progress
by Samantha J. Boardman

Index