In 1794, "the single largest example of armed resistance to a law of the United States between the ratification of the Constitution and the Civil War" occurred in four frontier counties of western Pennsylvania when angry farmers there refused to pay an excise tax on whiskey-- a …
When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first l…
In 1794, "the single largest example of armed resistance to a law of the United States between the ratification of the Constitution and the Civil War" occurred in four frontier counties of western Pennsylvania when angry farmers there refused to pay an excise tax on whiskey-- a …
A groundbreaking look at abortion politics among parties and interest groups.
The early nineteenth century was a time of great change as the United States transitioned from the colonial era to the industrial age. Benjamin Wright's engineering career spanned the better part of that time from 1790 to 1840.In Benjamin Wright: Father of American Civil Enginee…
Coal Dust on Your Feet is an historical ethnography covering a century and a half, looking at the lives and struggles of the immigrants who came to work in the Pennsylvania anthracite mines. It is an historical ethnography of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, scholars o…
"Coal Dust on Your Feet is an historical ethnography of Shamokin, Pennsylvania and its surrounding borough of Coal Township. This anthracite coal fueled the industrial revolution and its miners generated the rise of organized labor, both of which make the region of northeast Pen…
Introduction: Exploring and contextualizing African American life in a cultural borderland, 1690s to 1950s / Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit -- Part I. Slavery and material culture -- Identifying an eighteenth-century slave quarter complex at the Cedar Creek Road site in sou…
Hybrid constitutionalisms : unsettling the empire of uniformity -- "Not repugnant or contrary" : law, discretion, and colonial founding -- Giving orders : theory and practice in the fundamental constitutions of Carolina -- Under negotiation : treaty power and hybrid constitution…
At a time when prisons were still new, and nearly every prison in the country followed the same model of confinement, Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary (opened in 1829) was known for its exceptional reliance on long-term solitary confinement. Eastern was criticized for i…
"At a time when prisons were still new, and nearly every prison in the country followed the same model of confinement, Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary (opened in 1829) was known for its exceptional reliance on long-term solitary confinement. Eastern was criticized for …
"At a time when prisons were still new, and nearly every prison in the country followed the same model of confinement, Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary (opened in 1829) was known for its exceptional reliance on long-term solitary confinement. Eastern was criticized for …