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VOLUME CXXXIII

January 2009

NO. 1



Staff

Contributors

The Lancaster County Cholera Epidemic of 1854 and the Challenge to the Miasma Theory of Disease
John B. Osborne 5

Reconstructing Philadelphia: African Americans and Politics in the Post–Civil War North
Andrew Diemer 29

The Assimilation of German Immigrants into a Pennsylvania German Township, 1840–1900
Robert F. Hueston 59

Notes and Documents

Newly Available and Processed Collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Eric Klinek and HSP Archives Staff 89

Book Reviews

Pencak, Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654–1800
by Leonard Dinnerstein 97

Eustace, Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution
by Richard Godbeer 98

Bric, Ireland, Philadelphia and the Re-Invention of America, 1760–1800
by Richard K. MacMaster 99

Hall and Hall, eds., Collected Works of James Wilson, 2 vols.
by Richard Leffler 101

Newman, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar 102

Formisano, For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s
by Andrew Shankman 104

Dunbar, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City
by Emma Lapsansky-Werner 105

Gross, Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
by Lillian Serece Williams 106

Cole, Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
by Walter Licht 108

Hamilton, Rising from the Wilderness: J. W. Gitt and His Legendary Newspaper, the Gazette and Daily of York, Pa.
by Ford Risley 109

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