Our volunteer firemen : a look at firefighting in early America as exemplified by the men and machines of Lancaster, Lebanon, Reading and York, Pennsylvania
"... Proceedings of the Black History in Pennsylvania Conference held in Pittsburgh on April 5 and 6, 1979"--Introd.
Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Part 1. Early Black education -- Part 2. Black life and labor in modern industrial Pennsylvania -- Part 3. Black genealogy and historiography -- Part 4. Curriculum development in Pennsylvania Black history.
Bern church record Bern Township, Berks County Pennsylvania: Baptisms (1739-1835) including tombstone inscriptions of burial grounds at Bernville from the library of Dr. Glenn P. Schwalm
This resource is from a Canadian area that was pioneered by Pennsylvania Mennonites from Franklin and Lancaster Counties. The death notices not only document deaths in the Canadian area but also deaths that occurred in Lancaster County.
edited by Bernard Bailyn and John B. Hench ; with a foreword by Marcus A. McCorison ; and an afterword by James Russell Wiggins.
ISBN
0912296186 :
Place of Publication
Worcester, [Mass.]
Publisher
American Antiquarian Society,
Date of Publication
1980.
Physical Description
383 p. ; 27 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Essays: 1. Printers and the American Revolution -- by Stephen Botein / 2. Freedom of the press in revolutionary America : The evolution of libertarianism, 1760 - 1820 -- by Richard Buel Jr / 3. The role of the newspaper press in the southern colonies on the eve of the Revolution : an interpretation -- by Robert M. Weir / 4. The Colonial German-language press and the American Revolution -- by Willi Paul Adams / 5. The character and coherence of the Loyalist press -- by Janice Potter and Robert M. Calhoon / 6. British correspondence in the colonial press, 1763 - 1775 ; a study in Anglo-American Misunderstanding before the American Revolution -- by Paul Langford / 7. Some statistics on American printing, 1764-1783, by G. Thomas Tanselle / 8. Afterword : The Legacy of the Press in the American Revolution, by James Russell Wiggins
Summary
In the forward, the book is described as a colleciton of "essays on the activities, place, and influence of American printers and journalists during the period of our Revolution."