The April issue of PMHB features articles on the 1794 suicide of Seneca leader Big Tree, kidnappings of free African Americans in 1810s and 1820s Philadelphia, and conflicts between the Pennsylvania State Police and miners in the 1920s.

Contents

Front Matter

Articles

The Death of Captain Big Tree: Suicide and the Perils of US–Iroquois Diplomacy in the Early 1790s

Robert M. Owens

A Precarious Freedom: The 1820 Philadelphia Kidnapping Crisis

Elliott Drago

Strikes, Prohibition, and the Politics of Policing in Pennsylvania during the 1920s

Thomas R. Pegram