Jennifer A. Thompson, Joseph J. Rishel, Eileen Owens, Timothy Rub, eds.
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 216 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87633-289-4. 
Laura M. Holzman.
Contested Image: Defining Philadelphia for the Twenty-First Century.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019. xi + 198 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4399-1588-2; $99.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4399-1587-5.
Andrew R. Murphy, John Smolenski, eds.
The Worlds of William Penn.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019. 438 pp.
$39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-978801-77-6.
Reviewed by Beverly Tomek (University of Houston-Victoria.) Published on H-Pennsylvania (September, 2020) Commissioned by Jeanine Mazak-Kahne (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Natasha Zaretsky. Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 312 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-17981-2.
Reviewed by Andrew Simpson (Duquesne University) Published on H-Pennsylvania (January, 2020) Commissioned by Jeanine Mazak-Kahne (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Rob Harper. Unsettling the West: Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 272 pp. $47.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4964-4.
Reviewed by Daniel Barr (Robert Morris University) Published on H-Pennsylvania (October, 2019) Commissioned by Jeanine Mazak-Kahne (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Roger D. Simon. Philadelphia: A Brief History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2017. 156 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-932304-26-8.
Reviewed by Christopher N. Fritsch (Mountain View College) Published on H-Pennsylvania (October, 2019) Commissioned by Jeanine Mazak-Kahne (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54221
David A. Ward. The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War. Jefferson: McFarland, 2018. 343 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6851-2.
Reviewed by Eric Duchess (Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaigua, NY) Published on H-Pennsylvania (August, 2019) Commissioned by Jeanine Mazak-Kahne (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor. Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. 176 pp. $16.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4529-5862-0; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-0607-8.
Reviewed by Melissa Ford (Slippery Rock University) Published on H-Pennsylvania (August, 2019) Commissioned by Jeanine Mazak-Kahne (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Lew Freedman. Connie Mack's First Dynasty: The Philadelphia Athletics, 1910-1914. Jefferson: McFarland, 2017. Illustrations. 224 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9627-3.
Reviewed by Ryan Pettengill (Mountain View College) Published on H-Pennsylvania (March, 2019) Commissioned by Jeanine Mazak-Kahne (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
William C. Forrey. History of Pennsylvania's State Parks, 1893-1983. Harrisburg: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Resources, Office of Resources Management, Bureau of State Parks, 1984. Illustrations, maps. 110 pp. http://paconservationheritage.org/resources/articles/. William C. Forrey. History of Pennsylvania's State Parks, 1984-2015.
Mark Whitaker. Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. Illustrations. xxi + 404 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5011-2239-2.
Reviewed by Kate Lukaszewicz (Sewickely Academy) Published on H-Pennsylvania (September, 2018) Commissioned by Allen J. Dieterich-Ward (Shippensburg University)
Tom Benjey. Glorious Times: Adventures of the Craighead Naturalists. Missoula: University of Montana Press, 2016. 264 pp. $18.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-9909748-9-5.
Reviewed by Brenda Barrett (Living Landscape Observer) Published on H-Pennsylvania (July, 2018) Commissioned by Allen J. Dieterich-Ward (Shippensburg University)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50369
James Young. Union Power: The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2017. 248 pp. $24.65 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-58367-619-6; $29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-58367-617-2.
Reviewed by Robert Shaffer (Shippensburg University) Published on H-Pennsylvania (June, 2018) Commissioned by Allen J. Dieterich-Ward (Shippensburg University)
Ronald E. Ostman, Harry Littell. Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers: A Visual History of Pennsylvania's Railroad Lumbering Communities; The Photographic Legacy of William T. Clarke. Keystone Books Series. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2016. Illustrations. 252 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-271-07207-4.
J. William Thompson. From Memory to Memorial: Shanksville, America, and Flight 93. Keystone Books Series. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. 200 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-271-07699-7.
Reviewed by Carolyn Kitch (Temple University) Published on H-Pennsylvania (March, 2018) Commissioned by Allen J. Dieterich-Ward (Shippensburg University)
