In its early years, William Penn's "Peaceable Kingdom" was anything but. Pennsylvania's governing institutions were faced with daunting challenges: Native Americans proved far less docile than Penn had hoped, the colony's non-English... more
As the geographic boundaries of early American history have expanded, so too have historians' attempts to explore the comparative dimensions of this history. At the same time, historians have struggled to find a conceptual framework... more
Abstract This dissertation examines the evolution of public cultures in colonial Pennsylvania from its founding through the Paxton uprising in 1764. Defining “public culture” as the creation of individual and collective efforts to... more
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This Article reviews Virginia and Maryland Laws and Carolina and Georgia Laws, edited by Alden T. Vaughn and Deborah Rosen, the latest volumes in University Publications of America's series of Early American Indian Documents. The Author... more
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