Author: University of Pennsylvania. TrusteesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Dinner of the Trustees ... to Provost Charles Custis Harrison
Author: University of Pennsylvania. TrusteesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Dinner of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to Provost Charles Custis Harrison
Author: University of Pennsylvania. TrusteesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Church and Estate
Author: Thomas F. RzeznikPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271069783
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
In Church and Estate, Thomas Rzeznik examines the lives and religious commitments of the Philadelphia elite during the period of industrial prosperity that extended from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s. The book demonstrates how their religious beliefs informed their actions and shaped their class identity, while simultaneously revealing the ways in which financial influences shaped the character of American religious life. In tracing those connections, it shows how religion and wealth shared a fruitful, yet ultimately tenuous, relationship.
Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Industry Week
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial management
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940
Author: Edward Potts CheyneyPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220879X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Following his retirement from teaching in 1934, Edward Potts Cheyney was invited by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to write a history of the University in celebration of its bicentennial. Cheyney completed the project, published as the present work, in 1940. This, then, is his history of the University of Pennsylvania from its founding to its bicentennial anniversary.
The Alumni Register of the University of Pennsylvania
Author: Olde Penn
Author: Valley Forge
Author: Lorett TreesePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271041735
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
More than four million people a year visit Valley Forge, one of America's most celebrated historic sites. Here, amid the rolling hills of southeastern Pennsylvania, visitors can pass through the house which served as Washington's Headquarters during the famous winter encampment of 1777-1778. Others picnic and jog in the huge park, complete with monuments, recreated log huts, and modern visitor center, all built to pay tribute to the Valley Forge story. In this lively book, Lorett Treese shows how Valley Forge evolved into the tourist mecca that it is today. In the process, she uses Valley Forge as a means for understanding how Americans view their own past. Treese explores the origins of popular images associated with Valley Forge, such as George Washington kneeling in the snow to seek divine assistance. She places Valley Forge in the context of the historic preservation movement as the site became Pennsylvania's first state park in 1893. She studies its "Era of Monuments" and the movement to "restore" Valley Forge in the spirit of Rockefeller's enormously popular colonial Williamsburg. Treese describes a Valley Forge fraught with controversy over the appropriate appearance and use of a place so revered. One such controversy, the "hot dog war," a brief but intense battle over concession stands, was spawned by Americans' changing perceptions of how a national park was to be used. The volatile Vietnam era prompted the state park commission to establish its "Subcommittee on Sex, Hippies, and Whiskey Swillers" to investigate park regulation infractions. Even today, people differ over exactly what happened at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778. The modern visitor sees the remains of over a century of commemoration, competition, and contention. The result, Treese shows, is a historic site that may reveal more about succeeding history than about Washington's army. This book will give its readers a new way to look at Valley Forge--and all historic sites.