Pennsylvania History, Vol. 84, No. 4, Autumn 2017

Special Issue: Pennsylvania and the Great War, Part 2

Pennsylvania History, Vol. 84, No. 3, Summer 2017

Special Issue: Pennsylvania and the Great War, Part 1

Pennsylvania History, Vol. 82, No. 1, Winter 2015

A Special Collaborative Issue: Teaching Pennsylvania History.


A collaborative issue with Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.

Pennsylvania History, vol. 80, no. 3, Summer 2013

Articles Include:



  • Revisiting the Timing and Events Leading to and Causing the Johnstown Flood of 1889 by Uldis Kaktins, Carrie Davis Todd, Stephanie Wojno, and Neil Coleman

  • Revealing Division: The Philadelphia Shirtwaist Strike, the Jewish Community, and Republican Machine Politics, 1909–1910 by Julianne Kornacki

  • "It's the Union Man That Holds the Winning Hand": Gambling in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region by Karol K. Weaver

  • Creating a Living Historiography: Tracing the Outlines of Philadelphia's Antebellum African American Women and Mapping Memory onto the Body by Valerie M. Joyce

  • Being Prometheus in 1943: Bringing Penicillin to the Working Man by Anthony Julius Scibilia


Also included: obituary, book reviews, books received, and contributors.

Pennsylvania History, vol. 80, no. 2, Spring 2013

Articles include:



  • "Under These Classic Shades Together": Intimate Male Friendships at the Antebellum College of New Jersey by Thomas J. Balcerski

  • Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Militia Law: The Statute that Transformed the State by Francis S. Fox

  • "Long in the Hand and Altogether Fruitless": The Pennsylvania Salt Works and Salt-Making on the New Jersey Shore during the American Revolution by Michael S. Adelberg

  • "A Genuine Republican": Benjamin Franklin Bache's Remarks (1797), the Federalists, and Republican Civic Humanism by Arthur Scherr


Also includes: Obituaries, Book Reviews, Film Review, and Contributors

Pennsylvania History, vol. 79, no. 4, Fall 2012

Special Issue: Environmental Histories of the Mid-Atlantic