The April issue of PMHB includes articles on the suppression of German votes in mid-eighteenth century Pennsylvania, a reevaluation of the role of newspapers in the runup to the American Revolution, and the importance of foreign affairs to the process of Constitutional ratification in Pennsylvania.

Contents

“A Breach That Must Be Healed”: Immigration, Politics, and Voter Suppression in Late Colonial Pennsylvania

Daniel Crown

Circulation, Subscription, and Circumscription: The Pennsylvania Journal and Newspaper Readership in Revolutionary Philadelphia

Jordan E. Taylor

Foreign Affairs and the Ratification of the Constitution in Pennsylvania

Robert W. Smith