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PA Books features authors of books about Pennsylvania-related topics. These hour-long conversations allow authors to discuss both their subject matter and inspiration behind the books.

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    • Arts
    • 4.6 • 65 Ratings

PA Books features authors of books about Pennsylvania-related topics. These hour-long conversations allow authors to discuss both their subject matter and inspiration behind the books.

    "George Washington in the French & Indian War" with Scott Patchan

    "George Washington in the French & Indian War" with Scott Patchan

    George Washington has frequently been criticized for his first military campaign, which sparked the French and Indian War. While his campaign failed to meet its objectives, Washington experienced his first taste of military command, dealing with situations that ultimately proved beyond his control, and learned lessons that made him into the man who led the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War.

    • 56 min
    "The Game that Saved the NHL" with Ed Gruver

    "The Game that Saved the NHL" with Ed Gruver

    In late 1975 and early 1976, at the height of the Cold War, two of the Soviet Union's long-dominant national hockey teams traveled to North America to play an eight-game series against the best teams in the National Hockey League. The culmination of the "Super Series" was reigning Soviet League champion HC CSKA Moscow's face-off against the defending NHL champion Flyers in Philadelphia on January 11, 1976.

    • 57 min
    "Telling of the Anthracite" with Philip Mosley

    "Telling of the Anthracite" with Philip Mosley

    "Telling of the Anthracite" explores the various ways in which anthracite history has been represented and remembered since 1960, the chosen date for the start of the "posthistorical" era coinciding approximately with the Knox mine disaster (1959) and the beginning of the Centralia mine fire (1962-), two cataclysmic and fateful events that symbolize the beginning of the end for wide scale deep anthracite mining in northeastern Pennsylvania.

    • 59 min
    "That Our Daughters May Be as Cornerstones" with Chad Leinaweaver

    "That Our Daughters May Be as Cornerstones" with Chad Leinaweaver

    Irving College was the first college to offer degrees in the arts and sciences to women and that two of its buildings still stand to this day. Named after famed author Washington Irving, this college for women was part of a nationwide trend in the nineteenth century to finally educate women, but a trend that was always fraught with opposition.

    • 50 min
    "On a Great Battlefield" with Jennifer Murray

    "On a Great Battlefield" with Jennifer Murray

    Of the more than seventy sites associated with the Civil War era that the National Park Service manages, none hold more national appeal and recognition than Gettysburg National Military Park. In "On a Great Battlefield," Jennifer M. Murray chronicles the administration of the National Park Service and how it educates the public about the battle and the Civil War as a whole since it acquired the site in August 1933.

    • 57 min
    "Emotional Brandywine" with Karl Kuerner & Bruce Mowday

    "Emotional Brandywine" with Karl Kuerner & Bruce Mowday

    The September 11, 1777, battle of Brandywine, a defeat for General George Washington, is too often forgotten by historians. Brandywine was one of the most important engagements of the war, also the largest land battle. Lafayette began his rise to an American hero that afternoon when he shed his blood for American freedom. Artist Karl J. Kuerner and author Bruce E. Mowday grew up near the main battlefield. Karl received instructions by world-renowned artist Andrew Wyeth. Karl uses his artistic talents to depict Brandywine landscape and Bruce writes about the history.

    • 57 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
65 Ratings

65 Ratings

TildaJean ,

When I was White

Thank you for this engrossing interview! Well done.

seaxz ,

Was good now it just leans left

Like the title said there used to be all kinds of stuff on here. Now it seems like it all slants hard left. Whether it be historically or present day. And I like that every once and awhile but it just seems like your bludgeoning me with it. A little bit of balance or no slants at all could easy make this a five again

I-Am ,

Mine eyes have seen

Local author Anthony Moulton published a book this year, you should interview him! He is a Marine Corps veteran from Lincoln University. His book “mine eyes have see” is a great book describing consequences of how we treat each other and moral obigation.

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