This special issue of PMHB explores stories from the rich history of education in Pennsylvania and highlights "hidden gems" for researchers interested in learning more about this topic.

Education in Pennsylvania History

Guest Edited by Jonathan Zimmerman and William W. Cutler III

Contents

Front Matter

Editorial
by Christina Larocco

Review Essay

Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the Historiography of Urban Public Education in Pennsylvania
by William W. Cutler III

Articles

Selling Gentility and Pretending Morality: Education and Newspaper Advertisements in Philadelphia, 1765–75
by Carl Robert Keyes
      
Philadelphia's Free Military School and the Radicalization of Wartime Officer Education, 1863–64
by Zachery A. Fry
     
Nellie Rathbone Bright: Acclaimed Author, Educator Activist, Un-American Woman?
by Erika M. Kitzmiller

The Reluctant President: Gaylord P. Harnwell and American University Leadership after World War II
by Ethan Schrum

Hidden Gems

The Michael Zinman Collection of Printing for the Blind
by Erika Piola
      
John Seely Hart's “Lectures on the Public Schools of Philadelphia, 1849”
by Margery N. Sly
      
The Raymond Walters Diaries: The Swarthmore College Days (1925–32)
by Robert Earnest Miller
       
New Light on the History of Correspondence Schools
by Robert L. Hampel
     
High School Yearbooks: Using and Preserving "The Record"
by Catherine D'Ignazio

Pa'lante in Pennsylvania: Puerto Rican Educational and Cultural Organizing through Aspira Inc. of Pennsylvania
by Lauren Lefty

Back Matter