Pennsylvania, history
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The history of Pennsylvania has been the story of a rich, diverse middle Atlantic state.
Bibliography
Surveys
- Miller, Randall M. and William A. Pencak, eds. Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth (2002) detailed scholarly history
- Beers, Paul B. Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday (1980), government textbook
- Klein, Philip S and Ari Hoogenboom. A History of Pennsylvania (1973).
- Weigley, Russell. Philadelphia: A 300-Year History (1982)
Pre 1900
- Robert L. Brunhouse; The Counter-Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1776-1790, 1942 online edition
- Buck, Solon J., Clarence McWilliams and Elizabeth Hawthorn Buck. The Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania (1939), social history online edition
- Dunaway, Wayland F. The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania (1944) online edition
- John B. Frantz and William Pencak; Beyond Philadelphia? The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland 1998 online edition
- Higginbotham, Sanford W. The Keystone in the Democratic Arch: Pennsylvania Politics, 1800-1816 (1952) online edition
- Illick Joseph E. Colonial Pennsylvania: A History (1976) onlineedition
- Ireland, Owen S. Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics: Ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania (1995) online edition
- Kehl, James A. Boss Rule in the Gilded Age: Matt Quay of Pennsylvania (1981) onlineedition
- Kevin Kenny; Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (1998) online edition
- Klees, Fredric. The Pennsylvania Dutch (1950)
- Klein, Philip Shriver. Pennsylvania Politics, 1817-1832: A Game without Rules (1940) online edition
- McCullough, David. The Johnstown Flood (1987)
- Mueller, Henry R. The Whig Party in Pennsylvania (1922)
- Billy G. Smith; The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800 (1990) online edition
- Snyder, Charles Mccool. The Jacksonian Heritage: Pennsylvania Politics, 1833-1848 (1958) online edition
- William A. Sullivan; The Industrial Worker in Pennsylvania, 1800-1840 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1955 online edition
- Thayer; Theodore. Pennsylvania Politics and the Growth of Democracy: 1740- 1776. 1953. online edition
- Tinkcom, Harry Marlin. The Republicans and Federalists in Pennsylvania, 1790-1801: A Study in National Stimulus and Local Response (1950) online edition
- Williamson, Harold F. and Arnold R. Daum. The American Petroleum Industry: The Age of Illumination, 1859-1899 (1959)
- Wood, Ralph. et al. The Pennsylvania Germans (1942) online edition
- Karin Wulf; Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia. Cornell University Press, 2000 online edition
Since 1900
- John Bodnar; Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870-1940, (1977), on Steelton online edition
- Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century Cornell University Press, (2005). ISBN 0-8014-8473-1.
- Kenneth J. Heineman; A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh, 1999 online edition
- M. Nelson McGeary, Gifford Pinchot: Forester-Politician (1960) Republican governor 1923–1927 and 1931–1935
- Warren, Kenneth. Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001 (2002)
Primary sources
- Vincent P. Carocci, A Capitol Journey: Reflections on the Press, Politics, and the Making Of Public Policy In Pennsylvania. (2005) memoir by senior aide to Gov Casey in 1990sexcerpts online
- Casey, Robert P. Fighting for Life: The Story of a Courageous Pro-Life Democrat Whose Own Brush with Death Made Medical History. Dallas, Texas: Word Publishing (1996). Autobiography. Hardcover: ISBN 0-849-91224-5, ISBN 978-0-84991-224-5.
- W. E. B. Dubois; The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899) online edition
- Albert Cook Myers; ed., Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707, (1912) online edition
- Jean R. Soderlund, ed; William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: A Documentary History 1983 online edition