The October issue of PMHB includes articles on Dutch and German reformed churches in the mid-eighteenth century, efficiency engineer Harrington Emerson, and Progressive-era Lancaster politician Frank C. Musser. 

Subordination and Autonomy in the Reformed Churches in the Middle Colonies, 1720–1748

Kenneth Shefsiek

White Shirts and Stopwatches: The Emerson Efficiency Engineers and Work Reorganization within Pennsylvania Firms, 1900–1920

James P. Quigel, Jr.

Frank C. Musser, the Coalition Party, and the Fight to End Machine Party Politics in Post–Progressive Era Lancaster, Pennsylvania 

Gerald G. Huesken Jr.