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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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"That Our Daughters May Be as Cornerstones" with Chad Leinaweaver
2w ago00:50:40Tap to summarizeIrving 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. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com
Transcribe →"Winning the Ten Crucial Days" with author David Price
3w ago00:58:21Tap to summarizeThe "Ten Crucial Days" winter campaign of 1776-77 is one of the most storied in the annals of military history. David Price examines this pivotal moment in the American War of Independence through an interpretive framework that focuses on five key factors: leadership, geography, weather, artillery, and contingency. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com
Transcribe →"Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters" with author Kim Gruenwald
May 400:25:38Tap to summarizeWhy did the Midwest become part of the United States instead of remaining under English, Spanish, or Native control? In Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters, historian Kim M. Gruenwald reveals commerce and trade, rather than war and political conflict, as the driving force behind America's westward expansion. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com
Transcribe →"Rescuing the Republic" with author Andrew Browning
Apr 2800:57:27Tap to summarizeThe first examination of how James Madison and the Annapolis Convention defied all odds and expectations to begin the near-impossible process of restructuring the federal government and worked to bring the republic back from the brink of collapse. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com
Transcribe →"King of the Gun Runners" with author Jim Miller
Apr 1100:54:37Tap to summarizeHear the untold story of a forgotten American, John Hart, whose adventures helped pave the way for the United States' emergence as an international power. For nearly three years, Hart became the most visible of a disparate group of mariners between New York and Key West who tormented Spanish authorities, riled the US government, and became heroes to an oppressed people fighting to be free. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com
Transcribe →"Three Roads to Gettysburg" with author Tim McGrath
Mar 1600:59:22Tap to summarizeWith a colorful supporting cast second to none, Three Roads to Gettysburg tells the story of Robert E. Lee, George Gordon Meade, and Abraham Lincoln, the monumental Battle of Gettysburg, and the immortal address that has come to define America. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com
Transcribe →"Unclaimed Valor" with Terrence Beltz
Mar 200:36:44Tap to summarizeIn August 1862, Pennsylvania quickly responded to President Lincoln's request for more troops. These devoted groups of mostly central Pennsylvanians, were to become the soldiers of the 130th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Through their diaries, letters, memoirs, and personal accounts, the men tell their heroic story. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com
Transcribe →"Mud, Rocks, Blazes" with author Heather Anderson
Feb 1200:46:51Tap to summarizeDespite her success setting a self-supported Fastest Known Time record on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2013, Heather "Anish" Anderson still had such deep-seated insecurities that she became convinced her feat had been a fluke. So two years later she set out again, this time hiking through mud, rocks, and mountain blazes to crush her constant self-doubt and seek the true source of her strength and purpose. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com
Transcribe →"The Whiz Kids" with Dennis Snelling
Jan 2900:49:50Tap to summarizeBefore the 1950 World Series, the Philadelphia Phillies were infamous for a record-breaking lack of achievement that dated from their conception in 1883 through the 1940s. Nicknamed the "Whiz Kids" because they had so many players under thirty, the 1950 Phillies team caught lightning in a bottle for one season and became legendary in Philadelphia and beyond. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com
Transcribe →"Theatres of the Body" with Lynn Matluck Brooks
Jan 600:57:48Tap to summarizeTheatres of the Body is a critical examination of danced stage productions in antebellum Philadelphia. At the time, the city boasted the largest number of native-born ballet dancers in the young nation and also became a creative home to blackface star T. D. Rice, who helped popularize that performance genre. Donate | Signup | pcntv.com
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