Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. False dawn -- Newcomers -- Settlers and squatters -- Expansion -- Fraud -- A hunger for land -- pt. 2. Theatre of bloodshed and rapine -- Braddock's defeat -- Pennsylvania goes to war -- Negotiations -- Westward journeys -- Conquest -- pt. 3. Zealots -- Indian uprising -- Rangers -- Conestoga Indiantown -- Lancaster workhouse -- Panic in Philadelphia -- pt. 4. A war of words -- The Declaration and Remonstrance -- A proper spirit of jealousy and revenge -- Christian white savages -- Under the tyrant's foot -- pt. 5. Unraveling -- Killers -- Mercenaries -- Revolutionaries -- Appendix : Identifying the Conestoga Indians.
Summary
"William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans ... Based on extensive research in eighteenth-century primary sources, this ... history offers an eye-opening look at how colonists--at first, the backwoods Paxton Boys but later the U.S. government--expropriated Native American lands, ending forever the dream of colonists and Indians living together in peace."--Jacket.
A comprehensive survey of the Penn Manor School District, Millersville, Pa. Made for the Penn Manor Board of School directors, the Administration and for the citizens of the Penn Manor School District by the Educational Service Bureau, Temple University
"None of the well-dressed crowd that gathered on the Hudson River side of Lower Manhattan on the hot afternoon of August 17, 1808, could have known the importance of the object they had come to see and, mostly, deride: Robert Fulton's new steamboat, the North River, the boat that is frequently - and wrongly - remembered as the Clermont. But, as Kirkpatrick Sale shows in this biography of Fulton, the North River's successful four-day round-trip to Albany proved a technology that would transform nineteenth-century America, open up the interior to huge waves of settlers, create and sustain industrial and plantation economies in the nation's heartland, and destroy the remaining Indian civilizations and most of the wild lands on which they depended. The North River's four-day trip introduced the machines and culture that marked the birth of the Industrial Revolution in America. The Fire of His Genius tells the story of the extraordinarily driven and ambitious inventor who brought all this about, probing into the undoubted genius of his mind but, too, laying bare the darker side of the man - and the darker side of the American dream that inspired him."--BOOK JACKET.
"Hosted by the Southern Lancaster County Historical Society and our many friends from Lancaster's "Southern End.'"
Contains local advertisements.
Contains bibliographic references.
Contents
Fulton's early years -- Southern Lancaster County Historical Society -- Events of the day -- Map of celebration events -- Robert Fulton the painter -- Index of advertisers -- Joseph Swift family -- Robert Fulton in Paris -- Robert Fulton's Clermont -- For further reading -- L. O. & S. Railroad at the centennial -- Press clippings from 1909 -- Committee members -- Clermont bicentennial sponsors.
The Cocalico Valley Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ,
Date of Publication
2006.
Physical Description
96 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Issued as: Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley, 31 (2006)
Summary
This issue of the journal commemorates the 125 year history of the Ephrata National Bank, and includes brief biographical sketches of the bank's seven presidents and a list of the bank's directors since 1881.
