Ethnic/African American Studies

"Live and Learn" 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 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 (cloth)
An anthology of recent scholarship on the African American experience in Pennsylvania.
Regular price: $19.95
Sale price: $10.00
African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives (paperback)
An anthology of recent scholarship on the African American experience in Pennsylvania.
Regular price: $9.95
Sale price: $5.00
Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848-1880
Benjamin Coates was one of the best-known white supporters of African colonization in nineteenth-century America.
$27.00
Discovering American Folklife: Essays on Folk Culture and the Pennsylvania Dutch
This book presents a sampling of Don Yoder’s massive oeuvre of folklife essays.
$16.95
El Viaje: Puerto Rican of Philadelphia
A photographic journey through Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican community.
$19.95
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
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.
Regular price: $19.95
Sale price: $15.95
Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites: Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern World
The first comprehensive work on Old Order Mennonite life and culture.
Regular price: $19.95
Sale price: $12.95
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
Pittsburgh Jazz
This book documents the almost forgotten magic created in Pittsburgh by a host of artists.
Regular price: $19.95
Sale price: $5.00
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
Race and Renaissance:<br>African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II
This book presents the first history of African American life in Pittsburgh after World War II.
$29.95
Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America
This is a book that traces the Moravians’ evolving mission projects, their strategies for supporting those missions, and their gradual integration.
$39.95
Scotch-Irish Presence in Pennsylvania
This is a well-written account of the Scotch-Irish in Pennsylvania.
$8.95
Song Yet Sung
Historical Fiction
In the days before the Civil War, a group of slaves breaks free in the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope.
$15.00
Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era
Even as African American men and women headed to Vietnam to fight for their country and to show their patriotism, they faced racism in the ranks, as did their families on the home front.
Regular price: $29.95
Sale price: $15.00
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 Peoples of Pennsylvania Pamphlets - The African Americans
African Americans in Pennsylvania.
$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 Peoples of Pennsylvania Pamphlets - The Welsh
Matthew S. Magda, 1986. paperback
$1.95
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Lincoln and the Triumph of Anti-Slavery Politics
The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the president and the most famous black man in America.
$16.95
Think No Evil: Inside the Story of the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting…and Beyond
This is the true story of shocking violence in the peaceful countryside of Lancaster County.
$23.99
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
Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia
This book traces the efforts of two generations of black Philadelphians to turn the City of Brotherly Love into a place of promise and opportunity for all.
$22.50
Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler
Hostetler was the premier scholar of Amish life, and this book both recounts and assesses Hostetler’s Amish-related work
Regular price: $39.95
Sale price: $29.95
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