The January PMHB includes articles on Benjamin Franklin’s possible contributions to a 1726 adventure narrative in the style of Robinson Crusoe; Philadelphia Quaker schools in the context of the late 18th-century educational marketplace; and the criminalization of poverty in Jacksonian Cumberland County.

A New Attribution to Benjamin Franklin

Hazel Wilkinson

Growing Pains: Quaker Benevolence and School Expansion in Philadelphia’s Educational Marketplace, 1689–1798

Grant Scribner

Hard Times, Property Crimes, and the Perils of Making Shift: The Working Poor in Jacksonian-Era Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

Michael B. McCoy