83rd ANNUAL MEETING
PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
NOVEMBER 6-8, 2014
PHILADELPHIA, PA
“THE PLACE OF PENNSYLVANIA”
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014
4:30-6:30 p.m.: PHA Council Meeting
Location: Cassatt House, 1320 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA
Session I: 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Plenary: Celebrating the Legacies of William “Bill” Pencak
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA, 2nd floor
Moderator: Barbara Gannon, University of Central Florida
Participants:
Scholarship: Randall Miller, St. Joseph’s University
PHA: John Frantz, Pennsylvania State University
Mentoring: George Boudreau, La Salle University
Teaching: Seth Bruggeman, Temple University
Reception immediately following plenary session
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Location: Doubletree Hotel, 237 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
Registration: 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 3rd Floor
Book Exhibit: 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., 3rd floor
Session II: 9:00-10:30 a.m.
A. Pennsylvania and the Place of Slavery in Foreign and Domestic Policy
Location: Aria A
Chair: Corey Brooks, York College of Pennsylvania
Michael Crowder, CUNY, Graduate Center
“‘No Captain Goes to the Havanna Without Horses or Slaves’: The Pennsylvania
Abolition Society’s Slave Trade Litigation, 1788-1807”
Nicholas Wood, Library Company of Philadelphia
“Pennsylvania, Doughfaces, and the Lessons of the Missouri Crisis”
Dael Norwood, Yale University
“A Pennsylvanian Place for the Geopolitics of Commerce and Slavery: The Origins and
Consequences William Bradford Reed’s Diplomacy in China”
Comment: Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Camden
B.
Tapping Nature’s Bounty in Wayne County− At the End of the Eighteenth Century and Now
Location: Aria B
Chair: Diane Wenger, Wilkes University
David Maxey, Gladwyne, PA
"Tapping Nature's Bounty: Samuel Meredith's Potash and Pearlash Venture at Ararat"
Margaret D. Simons, Honesdale, PA
"Tapping Equinunk's Maples for Sugar: Henry Drinker and the Union Farm"
Dean Williams, Philadelphia, PA
"The Intellectual Origins of Wilsonville, Pennsylvania"
Comment: Donna Rilling, Stony Brook University
C.
Urban Change and Community Revitalization
Location: Concerto A
Chair: Rachel Batch, Widener University
David Breiner, Philadelphia University
“Philadelphia’s School House Lane, A Place Apart”
Lee Berry, Chemical Heritage Foundation
“Asbestos, Risk Perception, and the Sense of Place, Ambler, Pennsylvania”
Bill Conlogue, Marywood University
“Scranton, A Tale of Two Cities”
Comment: Aaron Cowan, Slippery Rock University
BREAK: 10:30-10:45 a.m.
Session III: 10:45-12:15 p.m.
A. Contesting Authority in Pennsylvania, 1750-1865
Location Aria A
Chair: Kevin Kopper, Westmoreland Community College
Benjamin Scharff, Mercyhurst University
“The Innocent Must Suffer with the Guilty: The British Military, Political Factionalism,
and Authority in Pennsylvania, 1758”
Daniel Barr, Robert Morris University
“A Bad Character of Quarreling: Contesting Authority on the Revolutionary Pennsylvania
Frontier”
Eric Duchess, Finger Lakes Community College
“Pennsylvania's Copperheads, 1861-1865: Opposing "Illegitimate" Authority”
Comment: John Craig, Slippery Rock University
B. Disease and Death in Pennsylvania
Location: Aria B
Chair: Jean Soderlund, Lehigh University
Kristin Tremper, Lehigh University
“‘That Melancholy Subject’: Public Dialogues of Death in Eighteenth-Century
Philadelphia”
Camille Kaszubowski, University of Delaware
“‘Not a Poor, but a Very Importunate Widow’: Sarah Kennedy and the American
Revolution at Yellow Springs, Pennsylvania”
James Higgins, Lehigh University/Cedar Crest College
“‘The Home of Typhoid’: Typhoid and the Rise of State Level Public Health in
Pennsylvania”
Comment: Simon Finger, Reed College
C. Connecting Places to the Past: Heritage Tourism in Pennsylvania
Location: Concerto A
Chair: Whitney Martinko, Villanova University
Katharina Hering, Washington, D.C.
“Pennsylvania as Place and Ideology in the History of Pennsylvania German (Dutch)
Genealogical Heritage Tourism from the Late Nineteenth Century until the 1960s”
Anne Krulikowski, West Chester University
“‘In Old Pennsylvania Towns’: Colonial Revival Road Trips”
Allen Dieterich-Ward, Shippensburg University
“‘Rivers of Steel’: Industrial Heritage and Riverfront Renewal in Metropolitan Pittsburgh”
Comment: Carolyn Kitch, Temple University
LUNCHEON: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
Location: Orchestra Room, 2nd floor
Speaker: Sally McMurry, Pennsylvania State University
Session IV: 2:00-3:30 p.m.
A. Women, Children, and Pennsylvania’s Institutions of Refuge and Reform
Location: Aria A
Chair: Marion Roydhouse, Philadelphia University
Erica Hayden, Trevecca Nazarene University
“The Role of Place in the Pennsylvania Female Criminal Experience”
Judith Scheffler, West Chester University
“‘A Brand from the Burning’: The Female Prison Association of Friends in Philadelphia
and the Founding of the Howard Institution”
Karol Weaver, Susquehanna University
“Poverty, Parenting, and Power: The Williamsport Home for the Friendless”
Comment: Leslie Patrick, Bucknell University
B. Lincoln University, PA: A Training Ground for Regional, National and Global Leaders
Location: Aria B
Chair: Susan Pevar, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
Phillip Merrill, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania - NEH Grant participant
“Lincoln University, Pennsylvania: A Place of National Historic Importance”
Chieke Ihejirika, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
“Lincoln University: An Experiment in Human Redemption”
Carol Black, Lincoln University Heritage Initiative
“Lincoln University Heritage Initiative: Preserving and Sustaining The Place of Education
for Freedom in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”
Comment: Marilyn Button, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
C. Art and the Experience of Place
Location: Concerto A
Chair: Kathleen Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Ryan Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University
“The Jardella Reliefs: Circulating Relics of Philadelphia’s Early National Folly”
Jennifer Parsons, University of Virginia
“As Billy Penn Perched on City Hall: Urban Regional Identity and Philadelphia’s Built
Environment in the Early Work of John Sloan”
Stephen Nepa, Temple University, Moore College of Art and Design
“The Eternal Business of Life: Placing John Sloan’s Scenes of Industrial Philadelphia,
1897-1902”
Comment: Ed Slavishak, Susquehanna University
BREAK: 3:30-3:45 p.m.
Session V: 3:45-5:15 p.m.
A. Pennsylvania’s Waterways and Highways
Location: Aria A
Chair: John Hepp, Wilkes University
Jason Sellers, University of Mary Washington
“‘This Path between This Town and the Place Where He Lives’: Pennsylvania’s
Eighteenth-Century Intercultural Landscapes”
Nancy Hagedorn, SUNY Fredonia
“Pennsylvania’s Harbor: Philadelphia’s Eighteenth-Century Waterfront”
Daniel Kanhofer, New York University
“’The Metropolis of the United States’: Philadelphia and the Geopolitics of a
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Comment: Jeffrey Kaja, California State University, Northridge
B. Pennsylvania as a Place of Refuge or Exile
Location: Aria B
Chair: Alec Dun, Princeton University
Jason Daniels, Indian River State College
“Native Americans, Enslaved Africans, and Europeans: Runaways in Colonial
Pennsylvania, 1719-1779”
Rachel Engl Taggart, Lehigh University
“Awaiting the Queen in Azilum: Pennsylvania’s Place in the French Revolution”
Alicia Delgadillo, Tucson, AZ
“Good Intentions: Chiricahua Apache Education at the Carlisle Indian School”
Comment: Susan Klepp, Temple University, emeritus
C. Adapting History to the Digital Era: The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia and the
Reinvention of Community-Based Information
Location: Concerto A
Howard Gillette, Rutgers University, Camden
Charlene Mires, MARCH, Rutgers University, Camden
Randall Miller, St. Joseph’s University
Comment: Audience
BANQUET: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Location: Orchestra Room, 2nd floor
Award of the Philip S. Klein Prize for Best Book in Pennsylvania History, 2012-2013
The Dill Pickle Old Time Orchestra will play historical songs with a focus on Pennsylvania
The Dill Pickle Old Time Orchestra is comprised of fun loving gents and gals who love playing the
old time string band and Tin Pan Alley music of North America. Formed in 2008 by Zach Fay,
Nikolai Fox and Brendan Skwire (guitar, fiddle and bass) in West Philadelphia as The Dill Pickles,
the band expanded in 2010 to The Dill Pickle Old Time Orchestra, adding tenor banjo, mandolin,
and the rare but much sought after 'double fiddles'. Current members are J.C. Bell, Zach Fay,
Nikolai Fox, Charlie Hardy (manager), Eliza Jones, and Brendan Skwire. For those with a taste for
a little learning, they also provide some informal history of the music and songs.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2014
Location: Doubletree Hotel, 237 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
Registration: 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m., 3rd floor
Book Exhibit: 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 3rd floor
Members’ Meeting: 8:00-9:00 a.m., Orchestra Room, 2nd floor, Continental breakfast
Student Poster Session: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Concerto B, 3rd floor
Session VI: 9:00-10:30 a.m.
A. Sharing the Wealth: New Online Archival Resources of Philadelphia History
Location: Aria A
Chair: Jack McCarthy, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Christiana Dobrzynski Grippe, University of Pennsylvania
“Uncovering Philadelphia's Past: A Regional Solution to Revealing Hidden Collections”
Celia Caust-Ellenbogen, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
“Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories”
Michael Foight, Villanova University
“Villanova Digital Partners”
Robert Cheetham, Azavea/Philadelphia City Archives
“PhillyHistory.org: Revealing Visual History in the Philadelphia City Archives”
Comment: Jack McCarthy, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
B. History and Memory: Pennsylvania as Symbol
Location: Aria B
Chair: Jennifer Janofsky, Whitall House/Rowan University
Susan Poulson, University of Scranton
“Philadelphia and the Suffrage Movement: Place, Memory, Symbol”
Andrew Case, Washington College
“Unpredictable Places and Pasts: New and Old Visions of the Pennsylvania Countryside
at the Rodale Institute”
Karen Guenther, Mansfield University
“Flight 93 National Memorial: Commemorating 9/11's Impact on Pennsylvania”
Comment: Seth Bruggeman, Temple University
C. Pennsylvania as a Border State: Fugitive Slaves and Black Refugees
Location: Concerto A
Chair: Beverly Tomek, University of Houston-Victoria
Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Pennsylvania House of Representatives Archives/University of Leicester
“Hostile Demonstrations: Race, Crime, and Resistance in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
1820-1851”
Tim Konhaus, Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach
“Pandernarium: The Long Road to Freedom”
Kate Lukaszewicz, Senator John Heinz History Center [needs AV and internet connection]
“Enriching a Local Emancipation Narrative: The Life of Charles Garlick”
Comment: Richard Newman, Library Company of Philadelphia
BREAK: 10:30-10:45 a.m.
Session VII: 10:45-12:15 p.m.
A. Philadelphia and the Economics of 'Place' in the Early Republic
Location: Aria A
Chair: Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Camden
Sarah Chesney, William and Mary University
“How Does Your Garden Grow? Philadelphia’s Botanical Economy”
Richard Demirjian, Rutgers University, Camden
“Weekend at the Lazaretto: Quarantine, Commerce, and Power Relations in the
Delaware Valley, 1799-1801”
Andrew Fagel, University of Binghamton
“The First Public War Bond: The Democratization of Pennsylvania’s Financial Sector in
the War of 1812”
Comment: Michelle Craig McDonald, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
B. A Place for Civil Rights? Civil Rights Activism in the Nineteenth Century
Location: Aria B
Chair: Judith, Geisberg, Villanova University
Andrea Reidell, NARA Mid-Atlantic Branch
“The Early Civil Rights Project - Overview and Discoveries”
Alicia Anguiano, Temple University Beasley School of Law
“The Early Civil Rights Project - Recent Research”
Comment: Audience
C. Law, Politics, and Race in Pennsylvania’s Twentieth-Century Urban Spaces
Location: Concerto A
Chair: David Witwer, Penn State Harrisburg
Annie Anderson, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site
“Corrupt, Contented, and Forgotten: The Legacy of Prohibition Era Organized Crime in
Philadelphia”
Peter Levy, York College
“The Place of Urban Riots of the 1960s in History and Memory: A Case Study of York,
Pennsylvania”
Matthew J. Smalarz, Manor College/University of Rochester
“A Declaration of Independence: W. Wilson Goode, Hank Salvatore, and the Racial
Politics of Urban Governance and Suburban Space in Northeast Philadelphia, 19831990”
Comment: Roger Simon, Lehigh University
LUNCHEON: 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Location: Orchestra Room, 2nd floor
Speaker: Nathaniel Popkin, Editorial and Research Director of Hidden City Philadelphia
(http://hiddencityphiladelphia.org) and co-editor of Hidden City Daily, an online magazine
“Reading the Hidden City: Finding Stories in the Layers”