Andrew M. Wilson, Daniel W. Brauning, and Robert S. Mulvihill, editors ; Geoff Malosh, photo editor ; Catherine D. Haffner, production assistance and editing ; Andrew Mack, bibliographer.
xxiv, 586 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 32 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The geography of Pennsylvania / Andrew M. Wilson -- Habitats and habitat change / Andrew M. Wilson, Margaret Brittingham and Joe Bishop -- Atlas methods / Daniel W. Brauning, Mike lanzone, and Andrew M. Wilson -- Analytical methods / Andrew M. Wilson -- Coverage and results / Andrew M. Wilson and Daniel W. Brauning -- Contributions to conservation / Douglas A. Gross, Sarah Sargent, and Catherine D. Haffner -- Interpreting species accounts -- Species accounts.
Summary
"Maps the current distribution of all of Pennsylvania's 190 breeding birds and documents the changes in climate, habitat, and distribution since the first edition of this work. Includes habitat analyses and color photographs for each species"--Provided by publisher.
Something in that Declaration -- The Republican revolution: Pennsylvania picks Lincoln -- Mobilizing for war -- We will die in defense of our right to liberty: the Civil War on Pennsylvania's border -- Combating the threat without and within -- Pennsylvania and the second American Revolution -- A day long to be remembered.
Summary
This book takes you to and beyond the battlefield at Gettysburg, to cities and towns throughout the state where Pennsylvanians fought over the meaning of the Union even as they fought for it. By the time the Civil War began in 1861, white and black Pennsylvanians along the state's southern border-in towns like Sadsbury, Coatesville, and Christiana-had been fighting with slave owners and catchers for a decade. And, more than a year after Lee's Army of Northern Virginia left southcentral Pennsylvania, the town of Chambersburg survived another, even more devastating Confederate invasion. For much longer than four years, Pennsylvanians waged war at home and abroad, to save the Union and to rethink its founding principles. Keystone State in Crisis tells that story. [from the publisher]
A genealogical record of the descendants of Martin Oberholtzer : together with historical and biographical sketches and illustrated with portraits and other illustrations
editor, Robert G. Crist ; illustrations, Linda Ries.
Place of Publication
University Park, Penn
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical Association,
Date of Publication
1985.
Physical Description
iv, 71 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania history studies ; no. 15
Notes
Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Matthew Quay, 1833-1904 / by James A. Kehl -- Simon Cameron, 1799-1889 / by Philip S. Klein -- Boies Penrose, 1860-1921 / by Paul B. Beers -- David Leo Lawrence, 1889-1966 / by Michael P. Weber.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
Contents
A short history of fugitives in America and an African named James Somerset -- The original meaning of the fugitive slave clause -- The Fugitive Slave Act, kidnapping, and the powers of dual sovereigns -- The rights of slaveholders and those of free Blacks in Pennsylvania's Personal Liberty Law of 1826 -- Black sailors, kidnapped freemen, and a crisis in northern fugitive slave jurisprudence -- Arresting Margaret -- Arresting Edward Prigg -- Before the court -- Deciding Prigg -- After the court.
Summary
Margaret Morgan was born in freedom's shadow. Her parents were slaves of John Ashmore, a prosperous Maryland mill owner who freed many of his slaves in the last years of his life. Ashmore never laid claim to Margaret, who eventually married a free black man and moved to Pennsylvania. Then, John Ashmore's widow sent Edward Prigg to Pennsylvania to claim Margaret as a runaway. Prigg seized Margaret and her children, one of them born in Pennsylvania and forcibly removed them to Maryland in violation of Pennsylvania law. In the ensuing uproar, Prigg was indicted for kidnapping under Pennsylvania's personal liberty law. Maryland, however, blocked his extradition, setting the stage for a remarkable Supreme Court case in 1842.
