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1 online resource (207 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Benjamin A. Bidlack: unknown diplomat -- George Washington Woodward: Pennsylvania Copperhead -- Terence V. Powderly: Knight of Labor -- Frank P. Slattery, Jr.: municipal reformer -- Congressman Daniel J. Flood: anthracite warrior -- Northeastern Pennsylvania in American history -- The Moravians: Pennsylvania Dutch missionaries -- French and British refugees on the Susquehanna -- Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin: pioneer priest of the Alleghenies -- Thomas Cooper: a radical for all seasons -- The origins of Lackawanna County -- Jane Grey Swisshelm: pioneer female journalist -- The burning of Chambersburg: a Civil War event -- The Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia -- Henry Ossawa Tanner: expatriate Philadelphia painter -- Pennsylvania social history: a glimpse of Pittsburgh (1880-1918) -- From double hanging to double hanging: semi-public executions in Wilkes-Barre and Tunkhannock, 1893-1909 -- John O'Hara: the Pottsville connection -- The Whiz Kids and the Bums: the National League pennant race of 1950 -- Pennsylvania children in the age of anthracite -- The origins of Pennsylvania place names. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Pennsylvania -- Biography.
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Pennsylvania -- History -- 1775-1865.
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Pennsylvania -- History -- 1865-
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Print version: Spear, Sheldon. Pennsylvania histories : two hundred years of personalities and events, 1750-1950. Lanham, Maryland : Lehigh University Press, [2015] |
| ISBN |
9781611462074 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781611462081 (e-book) |
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