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We Love PA History!
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Bill Lewis: All About Those Blue and Gold Markers...and the Titanic, too!
"You can't go down a Pennsylvania highway without seeing them. What are they?"Bill Lewis has a lifelong love of history. "Since I was a little kid, I've been kind of obsessed with history. And the more I learned, again, as a ...
Barbara Franco, Gettysburg Surgeons: Facing a Common Enemy
Gettysburg Surgeons: Facing a Common EnemyBarbara Franco will share her findings from a 10-year project to identify the surgeons who cared for the wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. A data base of more than 1200 surgeons, both U...
Ned Donoghue: Prisoners of Congress, Philadelphia's Quakers in Exile, 1777 to 1778
For over 245 years, historians have ignored the incidents that pitted the Patriots against the leaders of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Some publicly accused the Quaker leaders of being traitors ...
Judith Ridner: The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania, a Varied People
"...as probably many Scots-Irish people know, there's a lot of misunderstanding about who they are as a people. And I think a lot of modern Americans think one thing, and perhaps us historians would say that maybe they should be thinking about ...
Matt Gault: Fort Ligonier, and Washington's Brush with Death on the Battlefield
November 12, 1758. The story of Washington "putting his life in the most jeopardy it had ever been before or since:" "...Colonel Mercer is engaged with the enemy...He needs help. So Washington... takes a group of volunteers, mainly ...