Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0076
Aryn G. Neurock Schriner
abstract:Established to document, preserve, and share the rich heritage of the miners and mining families that once populated Eckley Miners’ Village in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Eckley Miners’ Village Museum plays a pivotal role in the commemoration of anthracite mining heritage. A cell-phone tour is one method the museum uses to educate the public about anthracite mining and Eckley’s former residents. A 2021 research effort in collaboration with the museum administration decided that the cell-phone tour inadequately contributed to this effort. The project determined the tour failed to adequately address the histories of marginalized communities at Eckley and required greater attention to visitor disability and engagement. Led by the author, the research project discussed in this article sought to rectify these issues through an overhaul of the existing cell-phone tour to ensure a more complete history is told in a more accurate and accessible manner.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0035
William A. Starna
abstract:In a collection of Rufus Grider’s drawings at the New York State Library is the tracing of a document attributed to Sir William Johnson, acquired from the Senecas of western New York in 1898. An undated version appears in the published Johnson papers. The tracing is of interest as it contains Grider’s reconstructed sketch of Johnson’s wax seal, the elements of which wend their way into present-day discussions of the “two row wampum” and the Covenant Chain. Once examined, however, Grider’s wax seal is found to be an invention, rendering contemporary accounts of its historical relevance dubious.
在纽约州立图书馆收藏的鲁弗斯·格莱德(Rufus Grider)的绘画作品中，有一份据称是威廉·约翰逊爵士(Sir William Johnson)创作的文件的描摹，该文件于1898年从纽约西部的塞内卡斯(Senecas)获得。未注明日期的版本出现在约翰逊发表的论文中。这幅画很有趣，因为它包含了格莱德对约翰逊蜡封的重建草图，其中的元素在今天关于“两排wampum”和契约链的讨论中有所体现。然而，一旦检查，格莱德的蜡封被发现是一个发明，使其历史相关性的当代叙述可疑。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0048
Michele Sullivan
abstract:Historians have traditionally recounted the history of the Underground Railroad in Chester County and elsewhere in Pennsylvania as the work of heroic Quakers. When African Americans are included, for example, in R. C. Smedley’s History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania, they are nearly always mentioned only by their first names or have often been reduced to the role of “assistants.” Smedley overlooked the important function of free Black churches and residential communities. This article illuminates the stories of African American abolitionists in Chester County, including their part in assisting fugitives escape and the various forms of resistance in which they engaged. Utilizing original documents, letters, archival records, census data, newspapers, and the perspectives of recent historians, this article provides a frame and a context by which to understand the contributions of local Blacks to the larger story of abolition and the Underground Railroad.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0149
C. Williams
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.3.0508
W. E. Watson
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.4.0622
Anna Andes
The annals of American theatre history have often overlooked, diminished, and dismissed the invaluable contributions of actresses, both stock and star, English and American, to the emergence of a burgeoning American theatre culture in the early years of the nineteenth century. In her book Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790–1850, Sara E. Lampert successfully rights these wrongs of a patriarchy-infused, gender-biased historical record. Through a thorough and expansive investigation of primary source material, Lampert focuses her study on the determined career aspirations of white actresses and their often career-complicating personal lives. More specifically, Lampert focuses her study upon a small retinue of “starring women,” women who achieved star status and attendant riches and celebrity. However, as Lampert consistently demonstrates, despite these factors, her starring women only achieved some measure of control over the path of their careers, as society’s patriarchal norms granted much power to the men of their professional and personal lives.Lampert’s collection of starring women offers the reader a complex and informative window into the gendered theatre culture of the time. Some of these women were born into the profession due to mothers and fathers already in the business. Others, in the latter decades of Lampert’s study, entered the acting profession solely on their own volition. Some of these women began their careers working for stock companies before breaking into the ranks of stardom. And others tried their professional hands at playwriting and theatre management. Whatever their unique paths constituted, they all experienced interference and pressure from patriarchal men who sought to control them for their own professional or personal gain. Such men included fathers, husbands, theatre managers, starring actors, agents, theatre critics, and newspaper reporters. Furthermore, Lampert’s study demonstrates that over time her starring women increasingly found themselves compelled to negotiate their private and public selves within a larger societal framework ruled by a middle-class identity increasingly invested in the ideals of genteel white femininity and Christian reform culture. As Lampert compellingly demonstrates, a failure to negotiate these societally determined parameters not only affected career success but also their very livelihoods.Lampert orients her study within a broader discussion of an emerging American theatre scene initially located in the northeastern cities of New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia. As her study notes, theatre culture would over time expand to Richmond, Charleston, Mobile, and New Orleans to the south and St. Louis and San Francisco to the west. However, the majority of her study focuses on the northeast and St. Louis. She casts theatre as an unstable business, one that sought change solely to reap rewards at the box office, one which hired whomever the public would pay
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.4.0540
Linda A. Ries
ABSTRACT A panoramic image of participants at the first annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association is discussed.
本文讨论了宾夕法尼亚州历史协会第一届年会上与会者的全景图。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0133
B. Ford
{"title":"Cultural Resource Management: A Collaborative Primer for Archaeologists","authors":"B. Ford","doi":"10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42553,"journal":{"name":"Pennsylvania History-A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies","volume":"55 15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75064632","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 : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0147
S. Vincent
{"title":"Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse: Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization","authors":"S. Vincent","doi":"10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.90.1.0147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42553,"journal":{"name":"Pennsylvania History-A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85686062","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 : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5325/pennhistory.90.4.0612
Dan Holland
ABSTRACT The documentary film Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike is discussed. Aired on WQED-TV Pittsburgh (available streaming on the WQED app or internet), January 5, 2023.
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