appeared in the Daily Evening Express which stated: TO MEN OF COLOR ! A Mass Meeting of the able-bodied men of color will be held on Wednesday at 8 o'clock, Fulton Hall, Lancaster City, to promote recruiting for United States Colored Troops For the War Frederick Douglas and other distinguished speakers

The Grand Army of the Republic in Lancaster County by Glenn B. Knight It was early 1866 and the United States of America — now securely one nation again — was waking to the reality of recovery from war. In prior wars the care for the veteran warrior was the province of the family or the community

-manufacturing and war-provisioning activities should have been a target of the invaders, but the British made no move towards Lancaster. The state government felt safe in Lancaster and remained there throughout the British occupation of Philadelphia. (From 1799 to 1812 the state government made Lancaster its

State University. All references to the I.W.W. Collection were obtained over the phone from Ms. Margaret Rauscher, archivist for the Labor Collection at Wayne State University in Detroit. 10. Philip S. Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume IV: The Industrial Workers of the

member of the Pennsylvania Legislature from 1817 to 1821 and had also served in the Eighteenth United States Congress, where he was acquainted with Daniel Webster. The Free School Act of 1834, written by Breck himself, was supported by almost the entire membership of the Pennsylvania Legislature. Later

, are part of a vernacular tradition in American landscape design which, while drawing upon the tenets of English aesthetic theory popularized in the United States by the horticulturist and landscape gardener Andrew Jackson Downing, were nevertheless the work of nonprofessionals who adapted widely

, Miller didn't do it, but he could have done it and it would have been perfectly typical of him.12 The Light and the Glory, a Christian conservative rewrite of American history by Peter Marshall and David Manuel, gives this story prominence in yet another version. The book that touts itself as "our

nineteenth century large numbers of immigrants began arriving in the United States from European nations whose culture was quite different from that of Western Europe and the British Isles from whence had come our early settlers. By this time many Americans had forgotten their own ancestors were immigrants

years following the close of the French and Indian War. After the Scots-Irish vigilantes known to history as the "Paxton Boys" burned Conestoga Indian town in 1763, they stopped at this elegant Quaker home to warm themselves by the fire, and perhaps to symbolically thumb their noses at Philadelphia's

and businesses, 75 percent. Pennsylvania has 2.3 percent of the woodland in the United States. Pennsylvania was not a "natural" region, but rather a rectangular area created by royal charter in 1681. Its boundaries were to be determined; and the only natural boundaries are the Delaware River in the