The April 2015 issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography is now available in print and online. In this issue readers can read about experiences of early American incarceration, the selling of the Pennsylvania wilderness experience, letters from a soldier in the United States Colored Troops, recent publications of Emilie Davis’s Civil War diary, newly available collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and more. The issue includes:
“This Scourge of Confinement”: James Morton’s Experiences of Incarceration in the Antebellum United States
by Jonathan Nash
Expert Vision: J. Horace McFarland in the Woods
by Edward Slavishak
Notes and Documents
The Civil War Letters of Tillman Valentine, Third US Colored Troops
by Jonathan W. White, Katie Fisher, and Elizabeth Wall
Newly Available and Processed Collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
by Rachel Moloshok and HSP Archives Staff
Review Essay
Getting History’s Words Right: Diaries of Emilie Davis
by Ann D. Gordon
As well as several book reviews. To learn more about PMHB and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, visithttp://hsp.org/publications/pennsylvania-magazine-of-history-biography.
From: H-Pennsylvania