Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize enti…
"A volume that explores the history behind Pennsylvania folklore with stories of monsters, ghosts, and miracles"--
"A volume that explores the history behind Pennsylvania folklore with stories of monsters, ghosts, and miracles"--
John James Audubon's birds, Academy of Natural Sciences -- Blaschka sea animals, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh -- Franklin B. Gowen ceremonial bowl, Historical Society of Pennsylvania -- Pessaries, Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia -- Skull of a prehist…
This classic work, originally published in 1949, has been reprinted for the 200th anniversary of the yellow fever plague in Philadelphia. Today, as outbreaks of infectious diseases continue to confront the medical community worldwide, this account of one city's struggle in the f…
This classic work, originally published in 1949, has been reprinted for the 200th anniversary of the yellow fever plague in Philadelphia. Today, as outbreaks of infectious diseases continue to confront the medical community worldwide, this account of one city's struggle in the f…
"The late eighteenth century marked a period of new expectations about marriage, according to Merril D. Smith, and those frequently resulted in marital strife. At the same time, new laws were being written and societal changes were occurring that helped couples in many ways to r…
""In Breaking The Bonds, Merril Smith establishes the ambitious goal of determining 'what kind of problems arose in troubled marriages' and of analyzing 'how men and women coped with marital discord.' ... To accomplish this, Smith studied hundreds of divorce petitions, other leg…
