Author: 
Susan H. Brandt
Reviewer: 
Scottie Buehler

Buehler on Brandt, 'Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia'

Susan H. Brandt. Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia. Early American Studies Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Illustrations. 312 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5386-3

Author: 
Esther Sahle
Reviewer: 
Robynne Rogers Healey

Healey on Sahle, 'Quakers in the British Atlantic World, c. 1660-1800'

Esther Sahle. Quakers in the British Atlantic World, c. 1660-1800. Melton: Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2021. 292 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78327-586-1.

Reviewed by Robynne Rogers Healey (Trinity Western University) Published on H-Early-America (January, 2022) Commissioned by Patrick Luck (Florida Polytechnic University)

Author: 
Richard N. Juliani
Reviewer: 
Claudio Staiti

Staiti on Juliani, 'Little Italy in the Great War: Philadelphia's Italians on the Battlefield and Home Front'

Richard N. Juliani. Little Italy in the Great War: Philadelphia's Italians on the Battlefield and Home Front. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. 342 pp. $37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4399-1878-4.

Reviewed by Claudio Staiti (University of San Marino) Published on H-Italy (December, 2021) Commissioned by Matteo Pretelli (University of Naples "L'Orientale")

Author: 
Claire Whitlinger
Reviewer: 
William Billups

Billups on Whitlinger, 'Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi'

Claire Whitlinger. Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 304 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-5633-5; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-5632-8.

Reviewed by William Billups (Emory University ) Published on H-South (September, 2020) Commissioned by Bennett Parten (Yale University)

Author: 
Jennifer A. Thompson, Joseph J. Rishel, Eileen Owens, Timothy Rub, eds.
Reviewer: 
Nancy Locke

Locke on Thompson and Rishel and Owens and Rub, 'Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art'

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

Author: 
Laura M. Holzman
Reviewer: 
Jennifer M. Black

Black on Holzman, 'Contested Image: Defining Philadelphia for the Twenty-First Century'

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

Author: 
Bethany Wiggin
Reviewer: 
Michael T. Putnam

Putnam on Wiggin, 'Babel of the Atlantic'

Bethany Wiggin. Babel of the Atlantic. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. 336 pp. $96.65 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-271-08323-0.

Reviewed by Michael T. Putnam (Pennsylvania State University) Published on H-TGS (January, 2020) Commissioned by Alison C. Efford (Marquette University)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54123

Author: 
Rebecca Yamin
Reviewer: 
David Zonderman

Zonderman on Yamin, 'Archaeology at the Site of the Museum of the American Revolution: A Tale of Two Taverns and the Growth of Philadelphia'

Rebecca Yamin. Archaeology at the Site of the Museum of the American Revolution: A Tale of Two Taverns and the Growth of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 160 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4399-1642-1

Author: 
Vera Blinn Reber
Reviewer: 
Carlos Dimas

Dimas on Reber, 'Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945: Beneath the Anguish in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires'

Vera Blinn Reber. Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945: Beneath the Anguish in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires. New York: Routledge, 2018. 348 pp. $149.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-35950-5.

Reviewed by Carlos Dimas (University of Nevada Las Vegas) Published on H-LatAm (July, 2020) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Author: 
Vera Blinn Reber
Reviewer: 
Charmaine Robson

Robson on Reber, 'Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945: Beneath the Anguish in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires'

Vera Blinn Reber. Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945: Beneath the Anguish in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires. New York: Routledge, 2018. 348 pp. $149.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-35950-5.

Reviewed by Charmaine Robson (University of New South Wales) Published on H-Disability (October, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

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