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Making and remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War

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Date of Publication: c2001.

Call Number: 973.7 M235

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Responsibility: edited by William Blair and William Pencak.

ISBN: 0271020792 (alk. paper); 9780271020792 (alk. paper)

Place of Publication: University Park, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,

Date of Publication: c2001.

Physical Description: xix, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Keystone Confederates : Pennsylvanians who fought for Dixie / Christian B. Keller -- Avenue of dreams : patriotism and the spectator at Philadelphia's Great Central Sanitary Fair / Elizabeth Milroy -- "We were enlisted for the war" : ladies' aid societies and the politics of women's work during the Civil War / Rachel Filene Seidman -- "The world will little note nor long remember" : gender analysis of civilian responses to the Battle of Gettysburg / Christina Ericson -- The Avery Monument : the elevation of race in public sculpture and the Republican Party / Henry Pisciotta -- The Civil War letters of Quartermaster Sergeant John C. Brock, 43rd regiment, United States Colored Troops / edited by Eric Ledell Smith -- Sites of memory, sites of glory : African-American Grand Army of the Republic posts in Pennsylvania / Barbara A. Gannon -- "A disgrace that can never be washed out" : Gettysburg and the lingering stigma of 1863 / Jim Weeks -- "Magnificence and terrible truthfulness" : Peter F. Rothermel's The Battle of Gettysburg / Mark Thistlethwaite -- The brothers' war : Gettysburg the movie and American memory / William Blair.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Influence.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Influence.

Additional Author: Blair, William Alan.; Pencak, William,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7 M235

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The colors of courage : Gettysburg's forgotten history : immigrants, women, and African-Americans in the Civil War's defining battle

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Author: Creighton, Margaret S.,

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: c2005.

Call Number: 973.7349 C914

3 websites

Responsibility: Margaret Creighton.

ISBN: 0465014569; 9780465014569; 9780465014576; 0465014577

Author: Creighton, Margaret S.,

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Basic Books,

Date of Publication: c2005.

Physical Description: xix, 321 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-308) and index.

Contents: The Gettysburg campaign : a brief chronology -- Prologue : the lay of the land; a sign of the times -- An afternoon in the badlands -- The season of disbelief -- Desolation's edge -- Flying thick like blackbirds -- Bold acts -- The wide eye of the storm -- The aftermath -- The seesaw of honor, or, How the pigpen was mightier than the sword -- Women and remembrance -- Making a living on hallowed land.

Summary: "In the summer of 1863, as Union and Confederate armies marched on southern Pennsylvania, the town of Gettysburg found itself thrust onto the center stage of war. The three days of fighting that ensued decisively turned the tide of the Civil War. In The Colors of Courage, Margaret Creighton narrates the tale of this crucial battle from the viewpoint of three unsung groups - women, immigrants, and African Americans - and reveals how wide the battle's dimensions were."; "Creighton draws on memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspapers to bring to life the individuals at the heart of her narrative. In telling the stories of these participants, Margaret Creighton has written a work of original history - a narrative that is sure to redefine the Civil War's most remarkable event."--Jacket.

Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.; Immigrants - Pennsylvania - Gettysburg; Women, White - Pennsylvania - Gettysburg; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Gettysburg; African Americans.; Immigrants.; Military participation; Women.; Women, White.; Einwanderer.; Frau.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - African Americans.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Women.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Participation, Immigrant.; Pennsylvania - Gettysburg.; United States.; Gettysburg (Pa.) - Schlacht.; Schwarze.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7349 C914

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Lincoln : a life of purpose and power

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Author: Carwardine, Richard.

Edition: 1st American ed.

Date of Publication: 2006.

Call Number: 923.173 L736c

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Responsibility: Richard Carwardine.

ISBN: 1400044561; 9781400044566

Author: Carwardine, Richard.

Edition: 1st American ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: xv, 394 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: Originally published: London : Pearson Education, 2003.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-360) and index.

Contents: 1. Inner power : Lincoln's ambition and political vision, 1809-54 -- Ambition -- Political vision -- Moral crisis : 1854 -- The religious roots of moral power -- 2. The power of opinion : Lincoln : the Illinois public and the new political order, 1854-58 -- Lincoln, democratic politics and public opinion -- Illinois public opinion and the anti-Nebraska fusion movement -- The senatorial campaign of 1858 -- 3. The power of party : winning the presidency, 1858-60 -- Presidential ambition : Lincoln, his party and the road to the Decatur convention -- The Republican presidential nomination -- The 1860 presidential campaign : the power of a righteous party -- 4. Confronting the limits of power : from president-elect to war president, 1860-61 -- In the antechamber to power : holding the party line -- From Springfield to Sumter : building a united front -- Strategies for 'a people's war' -- 'What shall I do? The people are impatient ... ' -- 5. The purposes of power : evolving objectives, 1861-65 -- Reading the public -- 'Every indispensable means' : toward the Emancipation Proclamation -- Faith and purposes -- Faithfulness of purpose : emancipation, reconstruction and black citizenship -- 6. The instruments of power : coercion and voluntary mobilization, 1861-65 -- Coercion, repression and executive power -- Popular mobilization : the 'power of the right word' and the agency of party -- Popular mobilization : churches and philanthropic organizations -- The Union army as a moral force -- The election of 1864 : 'the second birth of our nation' -- 7. Conclusion : power in death -- Chronology of Lincoln's life.

Summary: A portrait of America's sixteenth president follows Lincoln's life and career during his rise to political power and his years in the White House, arguing that he looked beyond the political system to find support in his struggle to end slavery.

Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.; Presidents - United States - Biography.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States - Politics and government - 1861-1865.; United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 L736c

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Eyewitness to the Civil War : the complete history from secession to Reconstruction

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Date of Publication: c2006.

Call Number: 973.7 E97

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Responsibility: edited by Neil Kagan ; narrative by Stephen G. Hyslop ; introduction by Harris J. Andrews.

ISBN: 0792262069; 9780792262060; 9780792252801 (deluxe ed.); 0792252802 (deluxe ed.)

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: National Geographic,

Date of Publication: c2006.

Physical Description: 416 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-405) and index.

Contents: Prologue : A nation divided -- 1861 : First blood -- 1862 : Total war -- 1863 : Victory or death -- 1864 : Rebels under siege -- 1865 : The final act -- Epilogue : The nation reunited.

Summary: Records the military, political, social, and cultural history of the Civil War through photographs, artifacts, period illustrations, maps, essays by historians, and firsthand accounts.

Subjects: United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Pictorial works.

Additional Author: Kagan, Neil.; Hyslop, Stephen G.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7 E97

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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006019672.html

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Peaceable kingdom lost : the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment

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Author: Kenny, Kevin,

Date of Publication: 2009.

Call Number: 974.802 K36

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Responsibility: Kevin Kenny.

ISBN: 9780195331509; 0195331508; 9780199753949; 0199753946

Author: Kenny, Kevin,

Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 2009.

Physical Description: viii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes: 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.

Subjects: Penn, William, - 1644-1718 - Philosophy.; Penn, William, - 1644-1718.; Paxton Boys.; Vigilantes - Pennsylvania; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania; Culture conflict - Pennsylvania; Culture conflict.; Indians of North America.; Philosophy.; Race relations.; Vigilantes.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - Race relations - History - 18th century.; Pennsylvania.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802 K36

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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=26446

The soldiers' revolution : Pennsylvanians in arms and the forging of early American identity

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Author: Knouff, Gregory T.,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Call Number: 973.3448 K72

1 website

Responsibility: Gregory T. Knouff.

ISBN: 027102335X (alk. paper)

Author: Knouff, Gregory T.,

Place of Publication: University Park, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Physical Description: xxiv, 312 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Conflict and community on the eve of revolution -- Why they fought -- Identity and the military community -- The meaning of the war against the British -- Race and violence on the frontier -- Civil War and the contest for community -- The memory of the American Revolution.

Subjects: Soldiers - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Influence.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Influence.; Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.3448 K72

Websites

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003022422.html

Card, Baseball

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 1 James Buchanan

Title: Topps Presidential Pastime Card, featuring James Buchanan

Object ID: JBFP 1.5.1.007

Date Range: 2004

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 1 James Buchanan

Title: Topps Presidential Pastime Card, featuring James Buchanan

Description: Topps Presidential Pastime Card, featuring James Buchanan, summarizes the coming of the Civil War and the “mushrooming” of baseball in 1860. In plastic case.

Date Range: 2004

Creator: Topps Company

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Container: JBFP Part 1, Box 5

People: Buchanan, James

Subjects: Topps Company; Baseball; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Search Terms: Civil War; Baseball; Topps Company; Buchanan Collections; James Buchanan; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan, 4 x 3 in.

Object Name: Card, Baseball

Language: English

Parent Object ID: JBFP Part 1 Series 5

Object ID: JBFP 1.5.1.007

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,; http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,; https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,; http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,; https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: James Buchanan Family Papers; MG-96 James Buchanan Collection; Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm; Photograph collections; Curatorial collections; Wheatland Mansion

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: JBMS2006.001

Other Number: JBFP Part 1, Series 5, Subseries 1, Folder 7

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.

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The new town square : museums and communities in transition

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Author: Archibald, Robert,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Call Number: 069 A673

1 website

Responsibility: Robert R. Archibald.

ISBN: 0759102872 (alk. paper); 0759102880 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Author: Archibald, Robert,

Place of Publication: Walnut Creek, Calif

Publisher: AltaMira Press,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Physical Description: viii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: American Association for State and Local History book series

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction: The past as context -- Creating a place -- The power of place -- Sharing the story -- Making connections -- Contemplating change -- The call of wildness -- Sustaining the future -- Touring a culture -- A wonderful place -- Under construction.

Subjects: Public history - United States; Historical museums - United States.; Memory - United States.; Community life - United States.; Social change - United States.; National characteristics, American.; United States - History, Local - Philosophy.; United States - Social conditions - 1980-; United States - Civilization - 1970-

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 069 A673

Websites

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003024700.html

Early American studies

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18272

Date of Publication: c2003-

Call Number: 905.748 EAS

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ISSN: 1543-4273

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, PA

Publisher: McNeil Center for Early American Studies,

Date of Publication: c2003-

Physical Description: v. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Publication Frequency: Semiannual

Dates of Publication: Vol. 1, no. 1 (spring 2003)-

Notes: "An interdisciplinary journal."

Subjects: United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Periodicals.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Periodicals.; United States - History - 1783-1865 - Periodicals.; United States - Civilization - To 1783 - Periodicals.; United States - Civilization - 1783-1865 - Periodicals.

Additional Corporate Author: McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 EAS

Websites

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/early%5Famerican%5Fstudies%5Fan%5Finterdisciplinary%5Fjournal/

Recording, Audio

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Title: Oral history interview with Emanuel (Max) Paul Peters, World War II veteran

Object ID: OH0001

Date Range: 2004/07/09

it was kind of a transition for the pilots, especially Max: This is early in the war, and we are an emerging nation and the pilots came from all walks of life. They learned to fly and the water tank was a good thing to read. They knew where they were in the States. They didn't really have all the

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Title: Oral history interview with Emanuel (Max) Paul Peters, World War II veteran

Description: Veteran's oral history interview with Emanuel (Max) Paul Peters.

Admin/Biographical History: Lt. Col. Peters served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, 642 Bomb Sq., 409th Bomb Group (L) during World War II. He began his military career in 1939 as a communications and camouflage officer. He retired from the Air Force in 1965 as Lieutenant Colonel. Military service 08/03/1939 - 12/25/1965.; DOB 11/14/1920; DOD 04/24/2014. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128641364/emanuel-paul-peters

Date Range: 2004/07/09

Creation Date: 9 July 2004

Date of Interview: 2004-07-09

Creator: Peters, Emanuel Paul, 1920-2014, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Friedman, William Frederick; Peters, Emanuel "Max" Paul; Peters, Margaret Jane Groff

Interviewer: Newton, Beverly

Narrator: Peters, Emanuel (Max) Paul

Other Creators: Newton, Beverly, collector

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subjects: Oral history; United States. Air Force; United States. Army. Air Corps; Veterans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County; World War, 1939-1945

Search Terms: Oral histories; United States Air Force; United States Army Air Corps; Veterans; World War II; WWII

Place of Interview: LancasterHistory

Quantity: 1

Object Name: Recording, Audio

Media: Cassette Tape

Length of Interview: 00:33:43

Language: English

Object ID: OH0001

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Mark Subject; 22:16:00 Worked with William F. Friedman; 22:34:00 Studied Enigma, and Purple Machine; 23:00:00 Worked with integrating sigint and electronic warfare; 24:39:00 Head of electronic warfare division; 24:47:00 Wins Legion of Merit; 25:20:00 Goes to California to work.; 26:00:00 Engineers would go to Stanford to share information.; 28:00:00 Returns with wife to Lancaster.; 29:12:00 Didn't realize importance of new science.; 31:41:00 Describes van belonging to local amateur club.; 00:33:67 Ironville named after iron mines in area; 00:55:20 built radios; 01:05:43 Joined Boy Scouts; 01:45:58 Listened to Berlin, Germany on his homemade radio; 02:14:02 Used old parts to make his radios; 02:31:57 Max put his radio on his bicycle; 03:20:20 Joined military in 1939; 04:43:40 Going through jungle in Panama; 04:53:29 Recalls going down river in canoes with alligators close by; 05:19:25 Went to OCS; 05:34:96 Sent to Florida - Tampa International Airport; 06:07:15 Radar Officer on SCR 270; 06:32:21 Transferred to Oklahoma; 07:20:68 Crosses ocean on ship named Martinia; 08:14:00 Was part of convoy. Martinia leaves convoy.; 09:36:90 In England. First mission can't find France (weather).; 09:46:70 Returning aircraft low on fuel. "Mayday" heard often.; 10:01:49 Pilots could see water towers in States. Can't do same in Europe.; 10:48:80 Learned to trust equipment. Found France on 2nd mission.; 11:12:00 Could tell weather by amount of signal received at base.; 11:28:00 "Spoofing" stations on base.; 12:10:00 D-Day.; 12:20:00 Practiced deception often before D-Day.; 12:50:00 Painted black and white stripes on aircraft.; 13:13:00 General Patton was decoy for D-Day.; 15:00:00 "G-equipment"; 15:55:00 Used smoke to designate target; 16:23:00 "No-ball" target; 16:33:00 "no-ball" target signified German V-1 rocket plane; 17:22:00 Wind shifted. Bombs dropped on friendly troops. Gen McNair victim.; 17:38:00 Started infantry and aircorp exchanges.; 17:44:00 River crossing; 18:14:00 "Cat eyes".; 19:36:00 Strafed by Me 109.; 20:28:00 Returns to states. Goes to F & M.; 21:59:00 Gets job at Arlington Hall, Virginia

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Custodial History: Database record revised by HST, 20 July 2022.

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Making and remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War

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The colors of courage : Gettysburg's forgotten history : immigrants, women, and African-Americans in the Civil War's defining battle

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Lincoln : a life of purpose and power

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Eyewitness to the Civil War : the complete history from secession to Reconstruction

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Peaceable kingdom lost : the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment

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The soldiers' revolution : Pennsylvanians in arms and the forging of early American identity

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Card, Baseball

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The new town square : museums and communities in transition

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