Abstract
From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657–1761; The Cost of Liberty: The Life of John Dickinson; To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class; On the Edge of Freedom: the Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania,1820–1870; The Philadelphia Nativist Riots: Irish Kensington Erupts; Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery; Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement; Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot; Black Citymakers: How “The Philadelphia Negro” Changed Urban America; The Nicest Kids in Town: “American Bandstand,” Rock ’n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia