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PMHB, April 2014

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PMHB, April 2014

Volume: 
138
Number: 
2

 

 

 

 

Contents


Front matter

Articles

Democratic Anti-Federalism: Rights, Democracy, and the Minority in the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention
by Michael Faber

Brewing Trouble: Federal, State, and Private Authority in Pennsylvania Prohibition Enforcement under Gifford Pinchot, 1923–27
by Thomas R. Pegram

Assessing the Modern Urban School System: The Institutionalization of Standardized Testing in Philadelphia, 1925–30
by René Luis Alvarez

Book Reviews

Churella, The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1: Building an Empire, 1846–1917
by John H. Hepp IV

Ramold, Across the Divide: Union Soldiers View the Northern Home Front
by James Marten

Harvey, The Civil War and American Art
by Mark E. Neely Jr.

Foster and Tucker, eds., An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew
by Amy Werbel

Heller, Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia
by John F. Bauman

Jones, The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
by Gavin Wright

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