A Manual of archival techniques

Roland M. Baumann

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Susquehanna’s Indians is an exhaustive historical and archaeological study of the Susquehannock and other Indians of the Susquehanna Valley from 1450 to 1750 C.E. Barry Kent combines the historical and archaeological records to interpret the culture of the peoples who formerly occupied the Susquehanna Valley of central and eastern Pennsylvania until their sudden disappearance in the mid-eighteenth century. Widely accessible for specialists and nonspecialists alike, the book provides the reader with a background about techniques used to date the events in this history, a summary of the cultural characteristics of this group over time, an overview of the numerous chronological and technological stages into which this group can be placed, and an extensive discussion of archaeological findings matched alongside what is known in the written historical record. For the benefit of the general and specialist reader alike, detailed evidence, analysis, and conclusions are included separately in the book’s final section.

Susquehanna's Indians (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission / Anthropological Series, No. 6)

History

Kent, Barry C.

Americas

J. Horace McFarland (1859–1948) was one of the first Americans to sound the call for environmental and scenic protection. He helped defend Niagara Falls from power company interests, fought together with John Muir and others to preserve the Hetch Hetchy Valley at Yosemite, and after that defeat rose again to be hailed as the father of the National Park Service. Esteemed by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft, McFarland advised secretaries of the interior for a period spanning forty years. A lifelong resident of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he played a key role in developing a reform package calling for the cleanup of the city and its river, and the creation of a splendid municipal park system. A noted writer, photographer, and astute businessman who owned a successful printing company, he was also an acclaimed gardener and the preeminent rosarian in America.
It is within the Progressive Era—an age identified by its crusading spirit of “cleaning up” politics and municipal environments, and assuring the proper use of natural resources—that McFarland’s story unfolds. As Ernest Morrison compellingly reveals, McFarland’s greatness lay in the form of his unique skills in campaign planning and consensus building, and, at his core, in a profound integrity. Morrison’s scholarship and enthusiasm for his subject combine to create a vivid account of one whose crucial role in early conservation and environmental history has until now been almost forgotten. The photographs beautifully depict an era whose hallmark was public service.

J. Horace McFarland: A Thorn for Beauty

Literature & Fiction

Morrison, Ernest

Contemporary

The Knox Mine Disaster is much more than a history of an accident—or an industry, for that matter. Because the book draws on the recollections of miners and their families, industry officials, and individuals involved in the legal aftermath of the disaster, it is an epic drama that is as spellbinding as it is sensational. Candid photographs of members of this cast of characters lend a human element that overshadows the gaping hole in the riverbed, the billions of gallons of water that crashed through it, and the tons of twisted equipment and machinery.

The Knox Mine Disaster: The Final Years of the Northern Anthracite Industry and the Effort to Rebuild a Regional Economy

Robert P. Wolensky

Kenneth C. Wolensky

Nicole H. Wolensky

Dramas & Plays

Directory of Pennsylvania photographers, 1839-1900

Ries, Linda A.

Conestoga Crossroads: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730-1790

Jerome H. Wood, Jr.

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