Author: John Palmer GarberPublisher:
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Category : Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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History of Old Germantown
Author: John Palmer GarberPublisher:
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Category : Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Battles of Germantown
Author: David W. YoungPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781439915547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
2020 Philip S. Klein Book Prize Winner, Pennsylvania Historical Association Known as America’s most historic neighborhood, the Germantown section of Philadelphia (established in 1683) has distinguished itself by using public history initiatives to forge community. Progressive programs about ethnic history, postwar urban planning, and civil rights have helped make historic preservation and public history meaningful. The Battles of Germantown considers what these efforts can tell us about public history’s practice and purpose in the United States. Author David Young, a neighborhood resident who worked at Germantown historic sites for decades, uses his practitioner’s perspective to give examples of what he calls “effective public history.” The Battles of Germantown shows how the region celebrated “Negro Achievement Week” in 1928 and, for example, how social history research proved that the neighborhood’s Johnson House was a station on the Underground Railroad. These encounters have useful implications for addressing questions of race, history, and memory, as well as issues of urban planning and economic revitalization. Germantown’s historic sites use public history and provide leadership to motivate residents in an area challenged by job loss, population change, and institutional inertia. The Battles of Germantown illustrates how understanding and engaging with the past can benefit communities today.
The Pennsylvania-German
Author: Philip Columbus CrollPublisher:
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Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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The Pennsylvania-German
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants.
The Penn Germania ...
Author: Philip Columbus CrollPublisher:
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Category : Germans in Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Magazine of Art
Author: The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Franciscans-Gibson
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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"The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition.
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