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Scholars Bookshelf

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Recent and forthcoming books using the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Collections ​​​​​​​​​

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Featured Titles (Pictured Above)

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  • Michael Blaakman (HSP fellow 2013–14; 2016–17), Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 2023. View in HSP's catalog.

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  • Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America, 2021. Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History. View in HSP's catalog.

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  • Susan H. Brandt (HSP fellow 2011–12), Women Healers: Gender and Medical Authority in Early Philadelphia, 2022. Honorable Mention, 2022 Library Company of Philadelphia First Book Award. View in HSP's catalog.

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Additional Titles

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Slavery and Race

  • Michael Dickinson (HSP fellow 2015–16), Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680–1807, 2022. Winner of the 2023 Paul E. Lovejoy Prize from the Journal of Global Slavery.

  • Katherine Johnston (HSP fellow 2013–14), The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 2022.

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Health, Science, and the Body​

  • Elizabeth Kelly Gray (HSP fellow 2008–9), Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776–1914, 2022.

  • Lynn Matluck Brooks, Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Articulate Body, 2025.

  • Meghan Crnic, The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores, 2025.

  • Mairin Odle (HSP fellow 2012–13), Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America, 2022.

  • Sara Naramore (HSP fellow 2017–18), Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic, 2023.

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American Revolution and the Early Republic​

  • Ashli White (HSP fellow 2011–12), Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, 2023.

  • John Wood Sweet (HSP fellow 1991, 2002–3), The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America, 2022.

  • Kirsten Wood (HSP fellow 2005–6), Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States, 2023.

  • Michael D. Hattem (HSP fellow 2016–17), The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History, 2024.

  • Sara Naramore (HSP fellow 2017–18), Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic, 2023. (Also in Health)

  • Shira Lurie (HSP fellow 2017–18), The American Liberty Pole: Popular Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in the Early Republic, 2023.

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Politics and Global Affairs​

  • Edward P. Pompeian (HSP fellow 2011–12), Sustaining Empire: Venezuela’s Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828, 2022.

  • Franco Sciannameo, The Journey of Phil Trajetta: From Italian Political Prisoner to Free American Citizen, 2024.

  • John Suval (HSP fellow 2014–15), Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy, 2022.

  • Lindsay Schakenbach Regele (HSP fellow 2015–16), Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism, 2023.

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Biography, Family, and Social History

  • Andrew Sillen, Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White, 2024.

  • Lori D. Ginzberg (HSP fellow 2001–2), Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History, 2024.

  • Woody Exley, An Unexpected Man: The Life and Times of an Erstwhile Charity Boy, 2023.

  • Commerce, Communication, and Everyday Life
    Aaron W. Marrs (HSP fellow 2010–11), The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History, 2024.

  • Dael Norwood (HSP fellow 2010–11), Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America, 2022.

  • Jeffrey Makala (HSP fellow 2014–15), Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture, 2023.

  • David Thomson (HSP fellow 2014–15), Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union, 2022.

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Religion

  • Gail Rodgers McCormick, Charity, Change, and Community: Frankford's Swedenborgians and Their Circle, 1817–1971 (2 vols), 2024.

  • Jamie L. Brummitt (HSP fellow 2016–17), Protestant Relics in Early America, 2024.

If you utilized HSP's collections in your work, please submit your publication below. 

Thank you! Please reach out to Christina Larocco (clarocco@hsp.org) with any questions.

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