Institutional history was fashionable in the early years of the Society's publication. Churches, literary associations and other socially-approved organizations had their histories chronicled in the Society's pages. Not until recent years were organizations, institu- tions and social movements not considered

Continental Congress to the present time, there have been nine places that have hosted the government of the newly-indepen- dent states under the Continental Congress, the Articles of Confederation, and the present Constitution. They are: Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. Baltimore, Md. Philadelphia, Pa

Lancaster County's Literary Tastes Of The Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Centuries By John Ward Willson Loose Modern historians have focused much of their attention on intellectual history, that is to say, what did our progenitors think about, what influenced their thoughts, and how did they

troubled souls unto the paths of righteousness and bliss, they do preserve and nourish the moral and intellectual tradition of our civilization remarkably well. County historical societies simply haven't got an emotive corkscrew for drawing out funds from the public; they must depend on the rare bequest