Quest for Freedom Book Selections
"Quest for Freedom Live and Learn Weekends" provide an educational and engaging visitor experience that’s rooted in the Underground Railroad and Civil War communities in Pennsylvania and include these book selections.
African American Historical Sites Survey of Allegheny County
An in-depth treatment of the history of the African American community in Pittsburgh.
$5.00
African Americans in Harrisburg
African Americans in Harrisburg opens the door to this culturally diverse city.
$19.99
African Americans in Pittsburgh
This volume chronicles the distinct trends in the Pittsburgh African American community. The photographs capture candid experiences.
$19.99
African Americans in Pennsylvania, Above and Underground: <br>An Illustrated Guide
This work covers both the “above ground” activities of African Americans and the Underground Railroad.
$29.95
African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives
An anthology of recent scholarship on the African American experience in Pennsylvania.
Regular price: $19.95
Sale price: $15.95
African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives
An anthology of recent scholarship on the African American experience in Pennsylvania.
$9.95
Bravo! Greatness of Italian Music
This book discusses the Italian musical geniuses.
$19.95
El Viaje: Puerto Rican of Philadelphia
A photographic journey through Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican community.
$19.95
Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic
This is the first truly comprehensive, highly accessible, and thoroughly rooted account of the transformation of Pennsylvania German culture from 1790 to 1850.
$24.95
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
The author chronicles an era in which African Americans become active agents in overthrowing history, shaping Reconstruction, and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood.
$15.00
From Shtetl to Milltown
The story of the Jews who left their settlements in Poland, Russia, Hungary, and Galicia and migrated to Western Pennsylvania.
$18.95
Guide to African American Resources at the Pennsylvania State Archives
An easy-to-use reference book fo manuscript and in print, on African Americans available at the Pennsylvania State Archives.
$19.95
Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites: Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern World
The first comprehensive work on Old Order Mennonite life and culture.
$19.95
Italian Presence in Pennsylvania
An account of the contributions of Italians in Pennsylvania, subsequent to the age of exploration
$7.95
Jewish Life in Pennsylvania
An interesting account of how Pennsylvania's Jews embraced the challenges and opportunities they found.
$7.95
Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War
In the first scholarly treatment of pacifism during the Civil War, two experts in Anabaptist studies explore the important role of sectarian religion.
$39.95
Native Americans' Pennsylvania
The author recounts the story of Native Americans in the Keystone State.
$12.95
Pennsylvania Dutch Country
This book brings you the best of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, with lively features on history and culture, reviews of more than 125 inns and restaurants.
$12.95
Pennsylvania Germans: <br>A Brief Account of Their Influence in Pennsylvania
Covers the entire period of the Germans in Pennsylvania.
$8.95
Pittsburgh Jazz
This book documents the almost forgotten magic created in Pittsburgh by a host of artists.
$19.95
Plain Buggies
This volume tells of horse-drawn transportation used by the Amish, Mennonite, and Brethren sects.
$6.95
Polish Presence in Pennsylvania
This booklet addresses many significant issues of the Polish-American community.
$7.95
Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch
The folk-healing practice of powwowing was thought to draw upon the power of God to heal all manner of physical and spiritual ills.
$45.00
Scotch-Irish Presence in Pennsylvania
This is a well-written account of the Scotch-Irish in Pennsylvania.
$8.95
The Amish of Lancaster County
This book explains the uncommon lifestyle of the Amish community, from spirituality and belief to dress and horse-and-buggy transport, and the tragedy at the Nickel Mines school.
$14.95
The Black Presence in Pennsylvania: Making It Home
An excellent sketch of the black presence in, and its contributions to, Pennsylvania history.
$7.95
The Irish in Pennsylvania: A People Share a Commonwealth
A well-written and concise account of the history of the Irish in Pennsylvania.
$7.95
The Peoples of Pennsylvania Pamphlets - The African Americans
African Americans in Pennsylvania.
$1.95
The Peoples of Pennsylvania Pamphlets - The Italians
Kristin S. Bailey, 1988. paperback
$1.95
The Peoples of Pennsylvania Pamphlets - The Jews
Bruce Bazelon, 1986. paperback
$1.95
The Peoples of Pennsylvania Pamphlets - The Poles
Among the thirteen colonies, Pennsylvania had the largest number of Poles in the province
$1.95
The Peoples of Pennsylvania Pamphlets - The Swedes
The Swedish in Pennsylvania.
$1.95
The Price of a Child
Historical Fiction

Philadelphian Lorene Cary weaves a gripping tale of a runaway slave in The Price of a Child, an account that’s as absorbing as the authentic nineteenth-century slave narratives.
$14.00
Three Plays by August Wilson
In these three plays, published together for the first time, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner lights a dramatic fuse that winds through three anguished decades of the African-American experience.
$29.95
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