A Guide to the History of Pennsylvania

From William Penn's treaty with the Indians, to the suffering of troops at Valley Forge, the gallantry at Gettysburg, and the early development of the petroleum industry, Pennsylvania has often been at center stage in the evolution of the nation. Yet despite this record, the historical literature on the state is not as well known as that of many other states. This volume will remedy that deficiency by assessing the vast wealth of materials on the political, social, economic, and cultural development of the Keystone State. In a series of historiographical chapters, each devoted to a specific chronological period, the contributors present a thorough and informed analysis of the most important and significant literature, thereby providing a useful companion to printed bibliographies.

DENNIS B. DOWNEY is a Professor of History at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of a dozen scholarly articles and essays, and co-author ofNo Crooked Death: Coatesville, Pennsylvania and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker (1991), which won an Outstanding Book award from the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights. Downey is also the author of a forthcoming book on the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and Victorian America.

FRANCIS J. BREMER is Professor of History at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He is the former editor of Pennsylvania History and is currently editor ofThe Winthrop Papers for the Massachusetts Historical Society. Dr. Bremer has published numerous studies of seventeenth-century Anglo-America. Two new studies,The Congregational Communion: Clerical Friendship in the Anglo-American Puritan Community, 1610-1692 andShaping New England will be published in 1994 as will a revision of The Puritan Experiment.