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A Roundtable Discussion on the History of Disease and Public Health in Pennsylvania Tuesday | 30 March 2021 | 6:00 PM register here From long before the infamous Yellow Fever outbreak of 1793 to the current Covid-19 pandemic, the threat of disease has always been a fact of life for Pennsylvanians whether they realized it at the time or not… Read On

“Read All Over: The Reading Labor Advocate and the Socialist Power in Reading, Pennsylvania, 1927-1936” BY: Ian Gavigan, PhD Candidate at Rutgers University At the zenith of the Great Depression, the Parker Brothers began marketing Monopoly, the popular board game that encourages players to "take a ride on the Reading!" The Reading Lines connected Atlantic City to metropolitan New York… Read On

2021 Annual Meeting The Pennsylvania Historical Association invites you to join us virtually for our 90th Annual Meeting to be held in October 2021! This year's theme is "Justice and Rights in the Mid-Atlantic" and the Call for Proposals (CFP) is now open… Read On

William “Bill” Pencak Award for Undergraduate Research Nominations are now open for the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s 2021 William Pencak Award for the best undergraduate research paper about Pennsylvania and/or mid-Atlantic history… Read On

“Pennsylvania History Presents” is an online feature of the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s (PHA) website. Begun in 2019, we offer for free public access one article from the current issue of its quarterly award-winning journal, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies… Read On

Cunningham Prize awarded to Pennsylvania History! The American Historical Association has awarded its 2020 Raymond J. Cunningham Prize to an article that appeared in the Spring 2020 (87.2) issue of Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies… Read On

“Pennsylvania History Presents” is an online feature of the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s (PHA) website. Begun in 2019, we offer for free public access one article from the current issue of its quarterly award-winning journal, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies… Read On

In light of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, the Pennsylvania Historical Association is sharing a special feature of four publicly-available articles on public health published in Pennsylvania History. The articles are summarized by James Higgins, an expert on the history of influenza in North American and European cities… Read On

Join the York County History Center and the York County Economic Alliance on Monday, May 11 at 5 PM for a conversation with Dr. Scott Knowles, chair of the history department at Drexel University and author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America… Read On