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Once Upon A Time In West Chester, James Jones

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While most of my local history research has focused on industrial development and urban revitalization, this work examines a darker period in the late 1960s when West Chester underwent the kind of decline that plagued small towns all over the country. The intersection of middle class flight, youth rebellion, drug culture, racial strife and official corruption led to a murder and a series of sensational trials that revealed the limits of justice under Pennsylvania state law.

- Jim Jones

Jewish Volunteers, The International Brigades And The Spanish Civil War By Gerben Zaagsma (Book Review), Lisa Kirschenbaum

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The Meaning Of Resilience: Soviet Children In World War Ii, Lisa Kirschenbaum

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Religion Around Emily Dickinson, By W. Clark Gilpin (Book Review), Karin Gedge

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The Man Question: How Bolshevik Masculinity Shaped International Communism, Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

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It was a communist romance. In 1923, Croatian American communist Steve Nelson (born Stjepan Mesarsoš) met Margaret Yeager, the daughter of ‘radical’ German immigrants, at the Communist Party office in Pittsburgh. As Nelson recalled in his 1981 memoir, ‘everything happened’ very quickly, and the two married the same year. Both understood that Yeager, the ‘better educated’ and ‘more sophisticated’ of the two, would not accept a ‘passive role’ in the relationship. Indeed her mother gave the nineteen-year-old bridegroom a copy of August Bebel’s Woman and Socialism as a wedding gift. Nonetheless, they soon took on stereotypical roles. He became an …

Banishment In The Later Roman Empire, 284-476 Ce, By Daniel Washburn (Book Review), Eric Fournier

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The Idle Woman In Therapy And Fiction: S. Weir Mitchell’S Literary Career And The Gilded Age Fear Of Malingering, Brent Ruswick

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As one of America’s most prominent physicians in the Gilded Age and a successful novelist, S. Weir Mitchell sought to secure the professional reputation and authority of scientific, clinical medicine. Historians have given great attention to the ways that his treatment of women suffering from exhaustion or nervousness reinforced and created highly restrictive, gendered norms; more recently, historians have explored how Mitchell’s literary career augmented and echoed his approach to medicine. This article extends the historical analysis of Mitchell’s literary career by examining one of his lesser novels, Circumstance. Through the novel’s protagonist, an archetypically virtuous physician, and the antagonist, …

New Uses Of Family History In China: Economic Development And Political Unification, Cecilia Chien

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Review Of Eby, Clare Virginia, Until Choice Do Us Part: Marriage Reform In The Progressive Era, Brent Ruswick

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Modernity, Melancholy, Memory, And Filth: New Perspectives On Russian And Soviet Cities, Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

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Using The Environmental History Of The Commonwealth To Enhance Pennsylvania And U. S. History Courses, Charles A. Hardy Iii

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Painting In Sound: Aural History And Audio Art, Charles A. Hardy Iii

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Race, Gender, And The Elusive Child, Lisa Kirschenbaum

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A Workingman's Paradise The Evolution Of An Unplanned Suburban Landscape, Anne E. Krulikowski

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, land speculators laid out numerous unplanned suburban subdivisions in outlying wards of large industrial North American cities, including a group of nineteen such subdivisions in lower Southwest Philadelphia. With few restrictions on building and land use, individual families created businesses, dwellings, and yards to meet their own needs; thus, these subdivisions were characterized by significant variations in access to modern services and in the size, style, and quality of dwellings. Residents took great pride in their neighborhoods but also valued the surviving natural landscape preserved by undeveloped blocks and lots. [ABSTRACT FROM …

Comrade Pavlik: The Rise And Fall Of A Soviet Boy Hero (Book Review), Lisa Kirschenbaum

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Reforming Men And Women: Gender In The Antebellum City (Book Review), Karin Gedge

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Railroads Of West Chester: 1831 To The Present, James Jones

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The Trojan Women: Emma Hart Willard And The Troy Society For The Advancement Of Female Education In Greece, Angelo Repousis

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Made In West Chester: The History Of Industry In West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1867 To 1945, James Jones

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Prodigal Sons, Trap Doors, And Painted Women: Reflections On Life Stories, Urban Legends, And Aural History, Charles Hardy

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Fish Or Foul: A History Of The Delaware River Basin Through The Perspective Of The American Shad, 1682 To The Present, Charles A. Hardy Iii

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Industrialization And The British Colonial State: West Africa, 1939-1951 (Book Review), James Jones

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Philadelphia All The Time: Sound Of The Quaker City, 1896-1947, Charles Hardy

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The Stetson Company And Benevolent Feudalism, Roman A. Cybriwski, Charles A. Hardy Iii

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