Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.2.0309
Brian C. Black
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.2.0155
S. Gordon
abstract:The travels of a Moravian-made rifle reveal that Pennsylvania armed its troops in 1776 by disarming peaceable citizens. Modern judicial rulings often look to eighteenth century-precedents to insist that it is permissible only to “disarm the dangerous” and that America has “no tradition” of disarming “peaceable citizens.” But when Pennsylvania’s efforts at making new arms in 1775 and 1776 failed, it passed laws to authorize taking arms from anybody who was not using them, including a very substantial number of non-associators, often described as “well-affected,” whom nobody considered dangerous. Innumerable receipts kept on scraps of paper, dispersed in local, county, and state archives, enable us to trace not only the afterlife of a singular Moravian rifle but also the disarmament process itself in which military officers entered a home, lawfully but surely without a warm welcome, and took a musket or rifle that the homeowners considered their property.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.2.0333
Jessie L Wallace
PaH_90_2_07_BookReviews.indd Page 332 21/04/23 6:01 PM PaH_90_2_07_BookReviews.indd Page 333 21/04/23 6:01 PM sharpening the political considerations of music in the young nation—what he calls “a musically driven political history” (5). This is part of a growing historiography from especially the past decade that tackles the intersection of these phenomena in the nineteenth century especially. This is not a book of musicology and there is no musical analysis (although there is a very interesting “book soundtrack” linked from the press webpage that recreates in a contemporary style some of the songs this book discusses). As such the writings about politics and music by elite men provide the bulk of the source material. The newspapers, private correspondences, reports of musical societies, and diaries reveal that Americans thought about music and politics in tandem. Early Americans thought about music in relation to politics and their ideas about the power of music shaped political experiences. Billy Coleman’s Harnessing Harmony reminds us that patriotic music is just as political as protest music, even if its political work is done to secure the power of the status quo.
{"title":"Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America by Richard W. Pointer (review)","authors":"Jessie L Wallace","doi":"10.5325/pennhistory.90.2.0333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.90.2.0333","url":null,"abstract":"PaH_90_2_07_BookReviews.indd Page 332 21/04/23 6:01 PM PaH_90_2_07_BookReviews.indd Page 333 21/04/23 6:01 PM sharpening the political considerations of music in the young nation—what he calls “a musically driven political history” (5). This is part of a growing historiography from especially the past decade that tackles the intersection of these phenomena in the nineteenth century especially. This is not a book of musicology and there is no musical analysis (although there is a very interesting “book soundtrack” linked from the press webpage that recreates in a contemporary style some of the songs this book discusses). As such the writings about politics and music by elite men provide the bulk of the source material. The newspapers, private correspondences, reports of musical societies, and diaries reveal that Americans thought about music and politics in tandem. Early Americans thought about music in relation to politics and their ideas about the power of music shaped political experiences. Billy Coleman’s Harnessing Harmony reminds us that patriotic music is just as political as protest music, even if its political work is done to secure the power of the status quo.","PeriodicalId":42553,"journal":{"name":"Pennsylvania History-A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies","volume":"293 1","pages":"333 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89223500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.2.0331
A. Ostendorf
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.2.0335
J. Baker
{"title":"Epic Landscapes: Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Art of Watercolor","authors":"J. Baker","doi":"10.5325/pennhistory.90.2.0335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.90.2.0335","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42553,"journal":{"name":"Pennsylvania History-A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78706221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.2.0317
Clifton Hood
{"title":"Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic","authors":"Clifton Hood","doi":"10.5325/pennhistory.90.2.0317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.90.2.0317","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42553,"journal":{"name":"Pennsylvania History-A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88357035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0125
Richard F. Veit
{"title":"Robert J. Walker: The History and Archaeology of a U.S. Coast Survey Steamship by James P. Delgado and Stephen D. Nagiewicz (review)","authors":"Richard F. Veit","doi":"10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42553,"journal":{"name":"Pennsylvania History-A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"125 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85451799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0142
Dave Obringer
{"title":"Historical Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States by Whitney Martinko (review)","authors":"Dave Obringer","doi":"10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42553,"journal":{"name":"Pennsylvania History-A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"142 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77066536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0105
Brontë Short
abstract:This article concerns the 1688 Germantown Friends’ Protest Against Slavery. The document was written and signed by Francis Daniel Pastorius and three like-minded Quakers. Pastorius’s protest sparked early abolitionist debate in the American colonies, leading to other antislavery protests, such as Cadwalader Morgan’s and George Keith’s protests in the following decade. The Protest is a key example of early American diplomacy as it saw slavery as a contentious point with the potential to damage the new colony’s relationship with Europe and subsequent immigration. The Protest was not initially successful, garnering little response from contemporary Quakers. However, its long-term influence has provided the path for abolitionist legislation in the late 1700s and led to the shunning of pro-slavery Quakers.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0001
Donald E. Harpster, William A. Starna, Michele Sullivan, Aryn G. Neurock Schriner, Brontë Short, G. Everett, W. Chadwick, Lara Homsey-Messer, Richard F. Veit, Henry N. Buehner, Denis M. Crawford, Ben Ford, James Kopaczewski, M. C. M. Yinger, Dave Obringer, Patrick Rael, S. Vincent, C. E. Williams
abstract:The Americanization of the Philadelphia German Reformed community had its origins during the era of the American Revolution. Coming from a European Reformed tradition that had state support, the community found it difficult to maintain a church in the pluralistic environment of colonial Pennsylvania but the church’s charter of incorporation provided the needed modicum of support for the religious enterprise. Throughout the American Revolution, the Philadelphia German Reformed community supported the Patriot cause and its pastor, Caspar Weyberg, openly spoke in favor of independence during the British occupation of Philadelphia. However, the Philadelphia German Reformed community still valued aspects of its European heritage. The official language of the congregation remained German throughout the eighteenth century. In addition, the community was loyal to its theological and liturgical heritage embodied in the Heidelberg Catechism and the Palatinate Liturgy.
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