Product Description: A guide to western Pennsylvania's rural heritage museum in Somerset that recalls the fervent spirit that settled the Pennsylvania frontier. The site features historic and reproduction buildings and a museum that illustrate the history of agriculture and the evolving technology that continues to advance farming in this region...read more

Product Description: Graeme Park, near Horsham, Pennsylvania, is the only surviving residence of a colonial Pennsylvania governor. Sir William Keith had the house built in 1722 as a summer residence. The house was later owned by Dr. Thomas Graeme, a prominent citizen of Philadelphia, and then was passed down to his daughter, Elizabeth Ferguson, who was popular in literary circles and hosted some of the earliest salons in America...read more

Product Description: Based on Penn Family papers, this book tells the story of William Penn's heirs and their precarious ownership of Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century. Focusing on Thomas and John Penn, the last two proprietors, the author recounts the various struggles they faced with the Paxton Boys and the Indians on the frontier, Benjamin Franklin's drive for the establishment of a royal colony in the legislature, and finally the growing rift between the colonists and Britain, which would lead to the Revolution and the divestment of Penn family power in Pennsylvania...read more

Product Description: Written as a tribute to the 100th anniversary of the creation of the first state park in Pennsylvania, this pictorial history of Valley Forge takes you on a visual tour of the site and also a trip through time. The story shows how the area might have looked to visitors at the turn of the century, in the 1920s, during World War II, and in the more recent past...read more

Offers an examination of the antagonisms and ideology that informed American anti-communism and the critical role of that movement in shaping the political culture of twentieth-century America. By the author of Secrecy and Power.