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Author: William Pencak
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 027103579X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A collection of essays on the American Revolution in Pennsylvania. Topics include the politicization of the English- and German-language press and the population they served; the Revolution in remote areas of the state; and new historical perspectives on the American and British armies during the Valley Forge winter"--Provided by publisher.
Author: John B. Frantz
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780271042763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the American Revolution in rural Pennsylvania.
Author: WILLIAM H. EGLE
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781033851838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gregory T. Knouff
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780271047751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Soldiers' Revolution offers us a rare glimpse into the everyday world of the American Revolution. We see how the common experience of war drew soldiers together as they began the long process of forging an identity for a fledgling nation."--Jacket.
Author: William Henry Egle
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Alan Blair
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780271020792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor many people, Pennsylvania's contribution to the Civil War goes little beyond the battle of Gettysburg. The North in general has received far less attention than the Confederacy in the historiography of the Civil War—a weakness in the literature that this book will help to address. The essays in this volume suggest a few ways to reconsider the impact of the Civil War on Pennsylvania and the way its memory remains alive even today. Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War contains a wealth of new information about Pennsylvania during the war years. For instance, perhaps as many as 2,000 Pennsylvanians defected to the Confederacy to fight for the Southern cause. And during the advance of Lee's army in 1863, residents of the Gettysburg area gained a reputation throughout North and South as a stingy people who wanted to make money from the war rather than sacrifice for the Union. But the state displayed loyalty as well and commitment to the cause of freedom. Pittsburgh served as the site for one of the first public monuments in the country dedicated to African Americans. Women of the Commonwealth also contributed mightily through organizing sanitary fairs or helping in ways that belied their roles as keepers of the domestic world. And readers will learn from an African American soldier's letters how blacks helped win their own liberation. As a whole, the ten essays contained in Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War include courage on the battlefield but reflect the current trends to understand the motivations of soldiers and the impact of war on civilians, rather than focusing solely on battles or leadership. The essays also employ interdisciplinary techniques, as well as raise gender and racial questions. They incorporate a more expansive time frame than the four years of the conflict, by looking at not only the making of the war—but also its remaking—or how a public revisits the past to suit contemporary needs.
Author: John A Nagy
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Published: 2021-07-22
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781594163722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhiladelphia played a key role in the history of spying during the American Revolution because it was the main location for the Continental Congress, was occupied by the British Command, and then returned to Continental control. Philadelphia became a center of spies for the British and Americans--as well as double agents. An important contribution to Revolutionary War history, Spies in the Continental Capital: Espionage Across Pennsylvania During the American Revolution demonstrates that intelligence operations on both sides emanating from Pennsylvania were vast, well-designed, and critical to understanding the course and outcome of the war.
Author: John Dickinson
Publisher: New York : Outlook Company
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 734
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick Spero
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-09-26
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0812293347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Frontier Country, Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists understood it as a vulnerable, militarized boundary. The Pennsylvania frontier, Spero argues, was constituted through conflicts not only between colonists and Native Americans but also among neighboring British colonies. These violent encounters created what Spero describes as a distinctive "frontier society" on the eve of the American Revolution that transformed the once-peaceful colony of Pennsylvania into a "frontier country." Spero narrates Pennsylvania's story through a sequence of formative but until now largely overlooked confrontations: an eight-year-long border war between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the 1730s; the Seven Years' War and conflicts with Native Americans in the 1750s; a series of frontier rebellions in the 1760s that rocked the colony and its governing elite; and wars Pennsylvania fought with Virginia and Connecticut in the 1770s over its western and northern borders. Deploying innovative data-mining and GIS-mapping techniques to produce a series of customized maps, he illustrates the growth and shifting locations of frontiers over time. Synthesizing the tensions between high and low politics and between eastern and western regions in Pennsylvania before the Revolution, Spero recasts the importance of frontiers to the development of colonial America and the origins of American Independence.
