Publications
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Cervantine Blackness
(2025)
There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author’s compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and ...
Beyond the Covenant Chain
(2003)
For centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier—""the Romans of this Western World,"" as De Witt Clinton called them in 1811. Only in recent years have ...
The Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger
(2005)
David Zeisberger (1721–1808) was the head of a group of Moravian missionaries that settled in the Upper Ohio Valley in 1772 to minister to the Delaware Nation. For the next ten years, Zeisberger lived among the Delaware, ...
Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution
(1880)
This is the first of two volumes detailing Pennsylvania’s battalions and line during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. Volume 1 contains brief regimental histories, supplemented by letters and diary entries ...
Memorializing the Unsung
(2024)
By the time the Capuchins arrived in the seventeenth century, Kongo had been Catholic for nearly two hundred years. The European mission could not be conversion, then, but reinforcement; the Capuchins sought to establish ...
Falckner's Curieuse Nachricht von Pensylvania
(2012)
Originally circulated in Germany, Daniel Falckner’s Curieuse Nachricht von Pensylvania was one in a wave of pamphlets about the American colonies disseminated in Europe during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth ...
Penn's Grandest Cavern
(2007)
Published in 1916, this illustrated edition of Penn’s Grandest Cavern begins with several legends of Penn’s Cave and the surrounding area, followed by a description and history, all compiled and written by Henry W. Shoemaker. ...
Tales of the Bald Eagle Mountains in Central Pennsylvania
(2014)
Tales of the Bald Eagle Mountains in Central Pennsylvania , originally published in 1912 by the Bright Printing Company, was the fourth of Henry Shoemaker’s many published volumes of fantastical tales about Pennsylvania’s ...
The Cultural Politics of Tel Quel
(1996)
Founded in 1960 by a group of relatively unknown young writers, Tel Que l quickly became one of the most influential literary journals and controversial intellectual movements in France. During the following two decades ...
Allegories of Kingship
(1995)
This study examines issues in politics and political theory in selected works of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681), the major dramatist of the middle and later decades of the seventeenth century in Spain. By analyzing ...