Articles in the April 2018 issue of PMHB discuss struggles over Pennsylvania land surveys, a 19th-century infanticide trial, and moral debates over the tariff issue.

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Front matter

Articles

Improving Independence: The Struggle over Land Surveys in Northwestern Pennsylvania in 1794
by Marcus Gallo

Pardon or Punish? Legal and Community Interpretations of a Nineteenth-Century Infanticide
by Joanna B. Spanos

Mixed Feelings: Stephen Colwell, Christian Sensibility, and the American State, 1841–61
by Drew VandeCreek

Book Reviews

Butterfield, The Making of Tocqueville's America: Law and Association in the Early United States
by Jessica Roney

Cohen, Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America
by Rosanne Currarino

Holcomb, Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
by Carol Lasser

Diemer, The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863
by Millington Bergeson-Lockwood

Maillard, ed., Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879–1911
by Harriet Hyman Alonso

Braddock and Igoe, eds., A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia's Ecology in the Cultural Imagination
by Eliza Butler

McConnell-Sidorick, Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal
by Katarina Keane

Oresick, The Schenley Experiment: A Social History of Pittsburgh's First Public High School
by Jon Shelton

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