Harrisburg's Old 8th Ward

Edited by Michael Barton and Jessica Dorman
6.75” x 9.75”, 160 pages
Part of The Making of America Series
This volume presents the complete series of 35 articles by J. Howard Wert that appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot in 1912-1913. Together with more than 100 wonderfully evocative black and white vintage photographs, these articles chronicle the adventures of people who lived through some of the most sweeping changes in American history. No history of Harrisburg can match this one for detailed stories of the success and scandals of the city’s “good old days,” bringing to life the colorful characters and day-to-day grit and drama of the time. Collected and edited by two Penn State University professors, this book offers a detailed study of a single urban area that melds nineteenth-century moral sensibility with a modern appreciation for progress, making this work as accessible to today’s readers as it was to Wert’s contemporaries.