Book Review: A Student's Guide to the Study of History
John Lukacs, A Student's Guide to the Study of History. (Wilmington: lSI Books, 2000). Paperback, 49 pp. ISBN 188292641-2 $5.95.
2000 Winter, Volume 17, Issue 2
Book Review: Historical Monroe Township: A Collection of Articles and Images Illuminating Various Aspects of Our Community's Past
Sharon R. Nelson, ed., Historic Monroe Township: A Collection of Articles and Images Illuminating Various Aspects of Our Community's Past. (Camp Hill: Plank's Suburban Press, 2000) 90 pp. Paperback, $ 10.00
Book Review: The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore
The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, edited by Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge, and Cristanne Miller. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, 1997, cloth $35, xv, 597; index; ISBN 0-679-43909-9; paperback $15.95. ISBN 0-14-118120-6
History of Uriah United Methodist Church, Gardners
One hundred twenty years ago, in 1878, concerned Christians in the Uriah area of rural southeastern South Middleton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, organized and built a church. It was originally named Flint Ridge Chapel, or more commonly known as just "Chapel," of the Evangelical Association denomination. This denomination had been formed by Jacob Albright in 1800.
In Defense of Union and White Supremacy: The Democratic Alternative to Free Soil, 1847-1860
Before April 1861, no one saw the Civil War as inescapable. Cumberland County Democrats, like most northern Democrats, opposed the nation's division over slavery and tried to placate the South without alienating their constituents.
Leaving the Cumberland Valley: Patterns of Migration from 1750 until 1890
After decades of introducing Dickinson students to the fascination of the history of Carlisle and Cumberland County, four years ago I at last had the opportunity to explore the topic myself, first in a book on leisure in the nineteenth century, and then, after retirement, on the important but ignored phenomenon of migration out of the Cumberland Valley.
The Pine Grove Prisoner of War Camp
In May of 1943, as American and British forces were wrapping up their operations in North Africa and preparing for an invasion of Sicily, United States military personnel in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, were making their own unique contribution to the Allied war effort. Deep in the heart of the Michaux State Forest, an abandoned Civilian Conservation Corps camp was being renovated for an entirely new purpose: to detain and interrogate German prisoners.
Sermon on the Tenth Anniversary of His Pastorate, 1873
Note: Dr. Herrold delivered the Annual Address at the dinner of the Cumberland County Historical Society on October 17, 2000. The address was principally the Reverend Mr. Ault's sermon of 1873, which contained an historical account of the Reformed Church in Pennsylvania and the Cumberland Valley. It is reprinted here from the original manuscript in possession of St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Mechanicsburg.