An on-going conversation about the struggles and successes of immigrants throughout Philadelphia’s 300-plus-year history, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Becoming U.S. program series continues this spring with Age and Assimilation.

Publications

How do people from different cultural backgrounds and identities coexist, interact, and flourish together, and on what terms? This special issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography brings together scholars of Pennsylvania history to revisit some of these questions using current approaches to immigration and ethnicity.

What does citizenship mean? What are its rights and obligations? Who should be welcomed as a citizen and who excluded? These questions have come to the forefront of the current presidential race, but anxiety and controversy about what citizenship means have been a common refrain in America’s—and Pennsylvania’s—history. This issue of Legacies explores how Pennsylvanians have understood, exercised, and fought for citizenship from the earliest days of the republic to the present day.

HSP publishes the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, a scholarly journal, and Pennsylvania Legacies, a semi-annual public history magazine. Publications are available as a benefit to Friends of HSP and to individual and institutional subscribers. Individual issues are also available.