Authors:Michael Barton, Jessica Dorman,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, pennsylvania, making, ward, old, eighth, harrisburg
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-08-04
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 073852378X
ISBN-13: 9780738523781

Harrisburg was the capital of an increasingly urban and progressive Pennsylvania at the turn of the twentieth century, with the remnants of an older, more diverse city thriving in its midst. As the streets were paved for the first time and the new state capitol building rose over a humming industrial city ready to embrace change, Harrisburgís Eighth Ward clung to its rambunctious past. When the ìOld Eighthî stood in the way of the new Capitol Park, one journalist asked his readers to take a stroll through the streets one last time. ÝÝJ. Howard Wertís �

Authors:Thomas Dublin, Walter Licht,
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: twentieth, century, region, anthracite, decline, pennsylvania, face
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-11-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801484731
ISBN-13: 9780801484735

The anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered. Today, very little mining or industry remains, although residents have made valiant efforts to restore the fabric of their communities. In The Face of Decline, the noted historians Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht offer a sweeping history of this area over the course of the twentieth century. Combining business, labor, social, political, and environmental history, Dublin and Licht delve into coal communities to explore grassroots ethnic life and labor activism, economic revitalization, and the varied impact of economic decline across gen

Author: Dennis W. Brandt
Publisher: University of Missouri
Keywords: community, shades, blue, amp, war, civil, guards, heroes, 87th, pennsylvania, home
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2007-01-22
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0826216803
ISBN-13: 9780826216809

  The soldiers of the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry fought in the Overland campaign under Grant and in the Shenandoah valley under Sheridan, notably at the Battle of Monocacy. But as Dennis Brandt reveals in From Home Guards to Heroes, their real story takes place beyond the battlefield. The 87th drew its men from the Scotch-Irish and German populations of York and Adams counties in south-central Pennsylvania—a region with closer ties to Baltimore than to Philadelphia—where some citizens shared Marylanders’ southern views on race while others aided the Underground Railroad.       

Authors:Patricia Valentine Whitacre, Richard A. Plank,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, pennsylvania, images, county, township, bucks, tinicum
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-06-04
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738557536
ISBN-13: 9780738557533

Tinicum Township remained just beyond civilizationÂ’s limits as Europeans settled on farmland in lower parts of Bucks County early in the 18th century. Inhabited by Native Americans, the land was not appealing to Europeans. Tinicum was slowly settled by the English, Scotch-Irish, and Germans until early in the 20th century, when Eastern Europeans arrived, followed by artists and writers seeking refuge from city life. The hilly, rocky, and sometimes swampy topography that discouraged early settlement has continued to limit development of the rural areas between the six villages and ha

Author: Stephen Macedo
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: pennsylvania, law, studies, human, rights, international, crimes, national, jurisdiction, courts, prosecution, serious, universal
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2006-02-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0812219503
ISBN-13: 9780812219500

When former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London at the request of a Spanish judge, the world’s attention was focused for the first time on the idea of universal jurisdiction. Universal jurisdiction stands for the principle that atrocities such as genocide, torture, and war crimes are so heinous and so universally abhorred that any state is entitled to prosecute these crimes in its national courts regardless where they were committed or the nationality of the perpetrators or the victims. In 2001, two Rwandan nuns were convicted in a Belgian court for atrocities commit

Author: Marcia Bonta
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Keywords: group, outings, keystone, book, individual, places, journeys, pennsylvania, guide, natural, outbound
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1995-08-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0271014458
ISBN-13: 9780271014456

A sequel to "Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania", this guidebook describes 49 natural places in Pennsylvania, featuring their old-growth forests, rivers, waterfalls, botanical localities, wetlands, geological formations, endangered ecosystems and special birdwatching areas.

Authors:Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coi
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: human, rights, studies, pennsylvania, facing, past, apology
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2007-10-24
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0812240332
ISBN-13: 9780812240337

In a turnabout of the cynical belief that might makes right, nations now see fit to issue apologies to peoples and countries they have wronged. We live in an age that seeks to establish political truth, perhaps best exemplified by the creation of truth commissions in societies seeking to emerge from dictatorial pasts. The most noteworthy result of these efforts has been the near-universal realization that a society will not be able successfully to pass into the future until it somehow deals with the horrors of its past.A number of Western states and institutions have sought to come to terms wi