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'The Not So Good Old Days': Disease and the Struggle for Public Health in Pennsylvania

A Short History of the City of Philadelphia, From Its Foundation to the Present Time (1880)

Complete text of an 1880 book on the history of Philadelphia.

Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

Fold3 - Pennsylvania Archives ^FREE

Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. The Pennsylvania State Archives published 10 series of historical records in 138 volumes, covering the initial colonial settlement through the Civil War. Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Pennsylvania

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

History of North Central Pennsylvania

Historic pictures and information on North Central Pennsylvania.

Migration Trails In Early Pennsylvania (Wayback Machine)

Includes color coded map.

Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project

The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC), the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) created the Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project in 2010 to develop and share information about Pennsylvania’s agricultural history and the places that reflect that history.

Pennsylvania Civilian Conservation Camps - General History

Pennsylvania Covered Bridges

Pennsylvania History Timeline

Pennsylvania Trails of History

Women in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania: Toward a Model of Diversity (JSTOR)