Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Forests and WatersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
At Work in Penn's Woods: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania
Author: Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A study of the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the most popular programs created by FDR as part of the New Deal, examines Pennsylvania's CCC program, discussing their successful work in the reforestation of the state, upgrading state park recreational facilities, historic preservation, soil conservation, and relief assistance to Pennsylvania families in need.
Penn's Woods Passages
Author: Bob SopchickPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578759579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Penn's Woods Passages celebrates both hunting and nature through essays, art and fiction and is unique among sporting books in that both words and art are the expressions of a single vision. Comprised of selections from more that 200 articles and scores of art, Penn's Woods Passages has been woven into a creative and compelling whole, a retrospect of a lifetime outdoors that originates from the inner regions of the heart with an appeal that extends far beyond the borders of Penn's Woods.
In Penns Woods - a Handy and Helpful Pocket Manual of the Natural Wonders and Recreational Facilities of the State Forests of Pennsylvania. (Rev. 1925).
Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Forests and WatersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods
Author: Daniel RichterPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271046303
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Two powerfully contradictory images dominate historical memory when we think of Native Americans and colonists in early Pennsylvania. To one side is William Penn&’s legendary treaty with the Lenape at Shackamaxon in 1682, enshrined in Edward Hicks&’s allegories of the &"Peaceable Kingdom.&" To the other is the Paxton Boys&’ cold-blooded slaughter of twenty Conestoga men, women, and children in 1763. How relations between Pennsylvanians and their Native neighbors deteriorated, in only 80 years, from the idealism of Shackamaxon to the bloodthirstiness of Conestoga is the central theme of Friends and Enemies in Penn&’s Woods. William Pencak and Daniel Richter have assembled some of the most talented young historians working in the field today. Their approaches and subject matter vary greatly, but all concentrate less on the mundane details of how Euro- and Indian Pennsylvanians negotiated and fought than on how people constructed and reconstructed their cultures in dialogue with others. Taken together, the essays trace the collapse of whatever potential may have existed for a Pennsylvania shared by Indians and Europeans. What remained was a racialized definition that left no room for Native people, except in reassuring memories of the justice of the Founder. Pennsylvania came to be a landscape utterly dominated by Euro-Americans, who managed to turn the region&’s history not only into a story solely about themselves but a morality tale about their best (William Penn) and worst (Paxton Boys) sides. The construction of Pennsylvania on Native ground was also the construction of a racial order for the new nation. Friends and Enemies in Penn&’s Woods will find a broad audience among scholars of early American history, Native American history, and race relations.
In Penn's Woods
Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Forests and WatersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A Connecticut Yankee in Penn's Woods
Author: Charles E. MyersPublisher: Upshur Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Women in Penn's Woods
Author: Robyn S. YoungPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692484777
Category : Woman's Rights Convention
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Women in Penn's Woods was written to introduce the reader to the 1852 Women's Rights Convention and 175 women who made a difference in Pennsylvania's history. The book includes women's history contributions through the 20th century --
Penn's Woods, 1682-1982
Author: M. Joy CallenderPublisher:
ISBN: 9780910702072
Category : Historic trees
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Penn's Woods, 1682-1932
Author: Edward Embree WildmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Gettysburg, Day Three
Author: Jeffry D. WertPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439129290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Jeffry D. Wert re-creates the last day of the bloody Battle of Gettysburg in astonishing detail, taking readers from Meade's council of war to the seven-hour struggle for Culp's Hill -- the most sustained combat of the entire engagement. Drawing on hundreds of sources, including more than 400 manuscript collections, he offers brief excerpts from the letters and diaries of soldiers. He also introduces heroes on both sides of the conflict -- among them General George Greene, the oldest general on the battlefield, who led the Union troops at Culp's Hill. A gripping narrative written in a fresh and lively style, Gettysburg, Day Three is an unforgettable rendering of an immortal day in our country's history.