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Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker: Death in a Pennsylvania Steel Town
On a warm August night in 1911, Zachariah Walker was lynched--burned alive--by an angry mob on the outskirts of Coatesville, a prosperous Pennsylvania steel town. At the time of …
Lynching Beyond Dixie
In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the lynching violence …
A Guide to the History of Pennsylvania
From William Penn's treaty with the Indians, to the suffering of troops at Valley Forge, the gallantry at Gettysburg, and the early development of the petroleum industry, …
Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
Conceived in the era of eugenics as a solution to what was termed the “problem of the feeble-minded,” state-operated institutions subjected people with intellectual and …
Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker
';A compelling narrative that moves crisply through the murder, the lynching, and the cover-up by silence that local residents thereafter affected.'The Journal of American History …
A Season of Renewal
This study offers an engaging reassessment of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (the Columbian Exposition), generally regarded as the preeminent civic pageant in Victorian America. …