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    • Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
      Fromont, Cécile (2019)
      This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, ...
    • Temperance and Cosmopolitanism
      Stewart, Carole Lynn (2018)
      Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, George ...
    • Passing to América
      Abercrombie, Thomas A. (2018)
      In 1803 in the colonial South American city of La Plata, Doña Martina Vilvado y Balverde presented herself to church and crown officials to denounce her husband of more than four years, Don Antonio Yta, as a “woman in ...
    • The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures
      Stewart, R. Michael; Carr, Kurt W.; Raber, Paul A. (2015)
      Three thousand to four thousand years ago, the Native Americans of the mid-Atlantic region experienced a groundswell of cultural innovation. This remarkable era, known as the Transitional period, saw the advent of broad-bladed ...
    • History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States
      Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus (1876)
      First published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1818, History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations provides an account of the Lenni Lenape and other tribes in the mid-Atlantic region, looking at their ...
    • The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania
      Sachse, Julius F. (1895)
      First published by the author in 1895, The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania narrates the history of the early Germans of various sects and congregations who settled in Pennsylvania starting at the end of the ...
    • Old Times in Oildom
      Brown, George W. (1912)
      Old Times in Oildom, published in 1911 by the Derrick Publishing Company of Oil City, Pennsylvania, contains the memoirs and stories of George W. Brown, who was deeply involved in the oil business in Pennsylvania in the ...
    • Wolf Days in Pennsylvania
      Shoemaker, Henry W. (1914)
      Originally published in 1914 by the Tribune Press, Wolf Days in Pennsylvania preserves the fascinating history of Pennsylvania’s lost wolves and their hunters, which was already becoming the stuff of folklore and myth ...
    • Pennsylvania Railroad
      Sipes, William B. (1875)
      In Pennsylvania Railroad, William Sipes provides a detailed history of the railroad, its construction, its management, and its various lines and their stations, starting with the first experimental track laid down in 1809 ...
    • The Bible in Iron;
      Mercer, Henry C. (1914)
      The Bible in Iron is a richly illustrated book published in 1914 that documents and studies cast-iron stoves of Pennsylvania German origin. The stoves, decorated with intricate religious iconography derived from biblical ...
    • The Story of Johnstown
      McLaurin, J. J. (1890)
      The Story of Johnstown, published just a year after the devastating Johnstown flood of May 1889, is considered by many to be one of the best contemporary journalistic accounts of the flood. J. J. McLaurin, who was working ...
    • The Indian Steps
      Shoemaker, Henry W. (1912)
      Originally published in 1912 by the Bright Printing Company, The Indian Steps belongs to Henry Shoemaker’s robust corpus of tales and legends based on the folklore of Pennsylvania. This early Shoemaker collection of literary ...
    • The Life of Rev. Michael Schlatter
      Harbaugh, Henry (1857)
      First published in 1857 by the notable Pennsylvania German writer Henry Harbaugh, this volume presents the biography of Michael Schlatter, the organizer of the German Reformed Church in Pennsylvania. Schlatter arrived in ...
    • The Allegheny Pilot
      Babbitt, Edwin L. (1855)
      The Allegheny Pilot, first published in 1855, is an early travel guide to western Pennsylvania’s rivers and navigable waterways, complete with detailed maps, notes, and charts. Originally written for lumber raftsmen and ...
    • The Passenger Pigeon in Pennsylvania
      French, John C. (1919)
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    • Eldorado Found
      Shoemaker, Henry W. (1917)
      In this 1917 guidebook from the pre-automobile era, Henry Shoemaker breaks from his typical literary-folklore subjects to chronicle the natural and social landscapes of central Pennsylvania. The reader is introduced to the ...
    • The Moravian Graveyards of Lititz, Pa., 1744–1905
      Beck, Abraham Reinke (1906)
      Originally published in 1906 within the Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, this volume contains the names, gravesite locations, and available personal details for 1,219 people interred at the Moravian graveyard ...
    • The Moravian Graveyards at Nazareth, Pa., 1744–1904
      Kluge, Edward T. (1906)
      Originally published in 1906 within the Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, this volume contains the names, gravesite locations, and available personal details for 1,201 people interred at the two original ...
    • Guide to the Old Moravian Cemetery of Bethlehem, Pa., 1742–1910
      Schultze, Augustus (1912)
      Augustus Schultze writes in the preface to this guide, “Of the interesting and attractive places in historic Bethlehem there is perhaps none which is more sought out by strangers and which we hold in greater veneration ...
    • Journal of Samuel Maclay
      Maclay, Samuel (1836)
      The Journal of Samuel Maclay is one man’s account of a 1790 surveying expedition, commissioned by the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, to explore the newly purchased land in northwestern Pennsylvania, including ...