Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Introduction

William Pencak

1 “Falling Under the Domination Totally of Presbyterians”: The Paxton Riots and the Coming of the Revolution in Pennsylvania

Nathan Kozuskanich

2 The Americanization of the Pennsylvania Almanac

Patrick Spero

3 German-Language Almanacs in Revolutionary Pennsylvania

Philipp Münch

4 Religion, the American Revolution, and the Pennsylvania Germans

John B. Frantz

5 Out of Many, One: Pennsylvania’s Anglican Loyalist Clergy in the American Revolution

William Pencak

6 The Sons of the Old Chiefs: Surveying Identity and European-American Relationships in the “New Purchase” Territory (Centre County, Pennsylvania, 1769–1778)

Russell Spinney

7 Double Dishonor: Loyalists on the Middle Frontier

Douglas MacGregor

8 Esther DeBerdt Reed and Female Political Subjectivity in Revolutionary Pennsylvania: Identity, Agency, and Alienation in 1775

Owen S. Ireland

9 Redcoat Theater: Negotiating Identity in Occupied Philadelphia, 1777–1778

Meredith H. Lair

10 William Thompson and the Pennsylvania Riflemen

Robert J. Guy Jr.

11 Agency and Opportunity: Isaac Craig, the Craftsman Who Became a Gentleman

Melissah J. Pawlikowski

12 Constructing Community and the Diversity Dilemma: Ratification in Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe

13 The Decline of the Cheerful Taxpayer: Taxation in Pennsylvania, c. 1776–1815

Anthony M. Joseph

14 Two Winters of Discontent: A Comparative Look at the Continental Army’s Encampments at Valley Forge and Jockey Hollow

James S. Bailey

15 Music, Mayhem, and Melodrama: The Portrayal of the American Revolution in Pennsylvania on Film

Karen Guenther

Appendix: Publications of Henry Miller

Translated by Jan Logemann

Notes by William Pencak

List of Contributors

Index

About the Author

William Pencak is Professor of American History at Penn State University and editor of five previous volumes from the Penn State Press.