Welcome
The Pennsylvania Historical Association promotes interest in Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic history for scholars, museum and historical society and site professionals, and members of the public. We publish an acclaimed journal, Pennsylvania History, as well as the Pennsylvania History Studies Series, which cover a range of fascinating topics in Pennsylvania's history.
The PHA holds its annual meeting in a different Pennsylvania location each fall. The annual meetings bring together historians, educators and history buffs to participate in a wide variety of panel discussions, to hear speakers, and to enjoy meeting others interested in Pennsylvania history.
The PHA is also a proud sponsor of History Day and the exciting, www.explorepahistory.com web site. We are pleased to have partnerships with other organizations throughout the Commonwealth to promote an interest in Pennsylvania history.
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This book takes you to and beyond the battlefield at Gettysburg, to cities and towns throughout the state where Pennsylvanians fought over the meaning of the Union even as they fought for it. By the time the Civil War began in 1861, white and black Pennsylvanians along the state's southern border-in towns like Sadsbury, Coatesville, and Christiana-had been fighting with slave owners and catchers for a decade. And, more than a year after Lee's Army of Northern Virginia left southcentral Pennsylvania, the town of Chambersburg survived another, even more devastating Confederate invasion. For much longer than four years, Pennsylvanians waged war at home and abroad, to save the Union and to rethink its founding principles. Keystone State in Crisis tells that story.
Price: $14.95 plus tax, plus $2.50 postage ($18.35 Pennsylvania residents, $17.45 non-PA residents)
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Bernadette Lear's article, "Yankee Librarian in the Diamond City: Hannah Packard James, the Osterhout Free Library of Wilkes-Barre, and the Public Library Movement in Pennsylvania," published in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies in 2011, won the 2012 Donald G. Davis Article Award. This award is for the best article published in English on United States and Canadian library history and is sponsored by the American Library Association and the Library History Roundtable. Ms. Lear is an librarian at the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg.
