Archive

• Sick With Solitude: Jobs of Extreme Isolation
• Roadside Pennsylvania
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Education and Intellect
• The Pennsylvania Saloon
• Notes on the Life of Chauncey Johnny John
• Parlors, Living Rooms, and Zoom Spaces: Are We Moving Towards a Post-Personality World?
• The Winter of the Wolves
• Quotable Pennsylvania: European Observers
• The Philadelphia Commercial Museum and American Consumerism
• Carthage’s Cooperative Kitchen
• Archives Readings VI
• “I Care Not Who Writes the Laws:” Mark Sullivan and Everyone’s History
• James Hughes. Spanish Flu. Interview.
• Quotable Pennsylvania: The People
• An Ostrich For Your Thoughts
• A Case of History Locked Away in the Archives
• Archives Readings V
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Crime and Violence
• The Peculiarities of American Place Names
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Work, Labor, Industry
• “The Not So Good Old Days”; Public Health Article Published in Pennsylvania Heritage
• Earle-y to the Fight: The Anti-Nazi Activities of Governor George Earle
• Allentown State Hospital Time Capsule Unearthed
• Archives Readings IV
• Quotable Pennsylvania: The Presidents
• The Shenango Depot Massacre
• “Worse Things Than Snake Bites:” Rattlesnake Jack MacConnell
• Concrete City: Garden of the Anthracite Region
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Slavery
• Taylor’s Swift’s “cardigan,” But About an Archivist Collecting Records
• Archives Reading List: Part III
• Another Century 4k
• Re-Dressing Pennsylvania and the Wild West
• “History of a Wandering Yankee” Published in Alaska History
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Coal and Oil
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Black Pennsylvanians
• Blanche Butler Ames and the Work of Family History
• Archives Reading List: Part II
• All Our Telegraphs Are…a Mistake?
• Hobo, Tramp, and Bum are not Synonyms
• Pennsylvania Should Expand Its Temporary Release Program to Prevent Coronavirus Outbreaks in Prisons
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Military and Wartime
• Uncovering Pie in American History
• Making Sense of all the Interference
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Nature
• Three Squares
• Why Should the Historical Record Be Fuller?
• Traveling Medicine Shows Were Exciting and Unapologetic Cons
• What is a Yeggman?
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Forests
• Adriana Brinckle: A Victim of Respectability
• Women Made the Breadbasket of Democracy
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Early European Immigrants
• P.T. Barnum and the Frozen Church
• Quotable Pennsylvania: State Institutions
• Finding the Memory Carriers
• “Drove so Hard he Broke his Heart”: John Henry and Workplace Speed
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Government and Politics
• Book Review: From Asylum to Prison (Anne Parsons)
• The Leaking Pen
• Dr. Edith MacBride Dexter
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Local Communities
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Indigenous Peoples
• Quotable Pennsylvania: The Poets
• “Archiving Danville” Published in Contingent Magazine
• Quotable Pennsylvania: Its History
• Good Quotes About Pennsylvania
• “Each Individual Takes an Active Part:” Polk Center’s Closure Doesn’t Erase its Rich History
• The True Cost of a Pennsylvania Camp Fire
• “Plunged Into Radio in a Big Way”
• Working Collaboratively to Preserve and Share Pennsylvania’s Disability Records
• The Origins of Public Welfare and Human Services in Pennsylvania
• “Laughing Eel” Article Published in Nursing Clio
• Postcard Opens a Window to a Near Family Tragedy
• How Milk Got on Pennsylvania’s Breakfast Table
• “We had our music with us:” Does Recording Music Change its Value?
• In the Fast Lane: Speed and Overwork in the American Workplace
• Will Rogers Wasn’t Scared of the Radio
• Telegraph Laughter
• History of a Transcribing Yankee
• The Traveling Yankees Return to the “Glorious Climate” of California
• A Brave Hike to the Top of Mt. Shasta
• Penitentiary Pugilism
• 19th Century Harrisburg State Hospital Letters Donated to Pennsylvania State Archives
• “Generally Good and Enjoy-All Times” in Alaskan Waters
• Trading with the Tlingit in Sitka
• Catch a Glimpse of Mental Hospital History in M. Night Shymalan’s New Movie “Glass”
• Criminal. Insane. A Long History of Farview State Hospital
• Ice is Nice if You’re an Alaskan Tourist
• Pennsylvania’s Prison Chaplains
• The Tragedy of Dimmock Hollow: Disaster Strikes at a Crazy 1888 Campaign Rally
• Wired on Crime: Soapy Smith’s Telegraph Con
• Two Thousand Views!
• Nome Gold Rush: Economics over Adventure
• Alaska: “Too Grand for my Weak Pen to Describe”
• What’s in a Namesake?: George Washingtons Who Have Made Their Mark on America
• Now I am on Twitter!
• You Can Spit Here: Samuel Pennypacker’s Veto Messages
• Crime on the Wire: How the Telegraph was Used to Send the First Spam Mail
• A Vital Link to the Past: Pennsylvania’s Birth and Death Certificates
• Behind the Scenes Document Preservation at the National Archives, 1939
• How Do you Pronounce Glacier? And Other Alaska Fun Facts
• Snake, Rattle and Roll: Pennsylvania Timber Rattlesnakes
• Tales of Gold and Tlingit Totempoles
• Many Hats in the Archives: An Archives Reading List
• Alaska Really is a Great Country
• “Wild Sublimity and Weird Grandeur:” A Ride Up the Columbia River
• Relishing His Crime: SCI Graterford and the Stolen Hotdog
• Forests Have Always Been a Play Place for Children in Pennsylvania
• Historic Photos of Hunting and Fishing in Pennsylvania
• Al Capone’s Secret Release from a Pennsylvania Prison
• Vacationing Among Oregon’s Salmon Canneries
• Thoreau Imagines the Greatest History Never Written
• P.T. Barnum Was an Early Adopter of the Telegram- So he Could Prank his Co-Workers
• 14 People From History You Should Learn More About
• Another Century Turns Two!
• The Freedom Gang
• Roast Horse- It’s What’s for Dinner
• Messengers of a Cruel Society: Lewis Hines Photographs of Child Telegraph Messengers
• When the Telegraph Line Connects Pennsylvania
• Creating the Rights Narrative: Tom Randall’s Slavery Story
• The Industrial Home for Women at Muncy, Pennsylvania
• History of a Wandering Yankee: Train to Portland
• New Article Posted in New York History Blog
• Mighty Carl Browne: Hero of Coxey’s Army
• History of a Wandering Yankee: Journey to the Santa Cruz Mountains
• Gus Egolf: Captain of the Antique Industry
• A Hot Reception for the Cold War: Civil Defense in Pennsylvania
• History of a Wandering Yankee: Chinatown
• History of a Wandering Yankee: Cliff House and Sutro Baths
• History of a Wandering Yankee: Arrival in San Francisco
• History of a Wandering Yankee
• More than an Institution: Farview State Hospital
• A Week of Meals in 1942
• Carlisle Indian School Disinternment
• What’s for Lunch? Victory!
• The Littlest Models: Harry Whittier Frees’ Animal Photography
• Getting to Know the Culture Industry
• A Shopkeeper and a Historian
• Mrs. Ella Watson
• “Ask What You Can Do For Your Country:” The History of an Inaugural Sentence
• So Much Nostalgia!
• Richard Silvester and Maryland Agricultural College: “A School for the Farmer’s Boy”
• Maryland Yearbook Ephemera Fun
• John Haberle” A Counterfeit Artist
• A Fiddler, a Poet, and a Graveyard: The Spoon River Anthology’s Happier Poetry
• “Above all things, avoid a dress suit” (George Washington Plunkitt)
• Soap Sandwich (James Thurber on Daytime Radio)
• A Cartoon Takes on the Third Reich: Disney’s Chicken Little (1942)
• Innovation Behind the Camera: Stop Motion and Other Film Special Effects
• Mad About the Marathon
• Currier and Ives and the Nostalgic Past
• Pennsylvania Weighs in on the Smithsonian
• Boxing and Other Sports: It’s Personal(ity)
• Combat on the Screen and the Page
• Jumbo: A “Civilized” (and Giant) Terrapin
• The Dutch Belted Cow: A Research Mystery
• Advertising Battlefield: Cigarettes v. Candy
• War of the Worlds (Who Scared Who?)
• Are You a Cowboy or a Colonel?