** Denotes works of particular note, many held at Stenton

STANDARD WORKS, REFERENCE, BIOGRAPHY

SLAVERY AND SERVITUDE

WOMEN'S HISTORY

QUAKERISM

NATIVE AMERICANS

JAMES LOGAN, THE ENLIGHTENMENT, IDEAS AND BOOKS

SOCIAL HISTORY, COMMUNITY AND FAMILY

LANDSCAPE

EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD

MATERIAL CULTURE STUDIES

ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIORS

DECORATIVE ARTS

INTERPRETATION

FOODWAYS


STANDARD WORKS, REFERENCE, BIOGRAPHY

Carl and Jessica Bridenbaugh, Rebels and Gentlemen: Philadelphia in the Age of Franklin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962; first published 1942).

Mary Maples and Richard S Dunn, et al. (eds), The Papers of William Penn, 4 vols. (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981).

Richard S. and Mary Maples Dunn (eds), The World of William Penn (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986).

Craig Horle et al, eds., Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary, 1682-1709 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991)**

Craig Horle et al, eds., Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary, 1710-1756 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991)**

James Lemon, The Best Poor Man's Country: Early Southeastern Pennsylvania, (John Hopkins Press, new edition 2002).**

Albert Cook Myers, The Courtship of Hannah Logan, 1912.**

Ray Shepherd, "Stenton: Grand Simplicity in Quaker Philadelphia" (Unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Delaware, 1968).

Frederick B. Tolles, James Logan and the Culture of Provincial America (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1957).**

Frederick B. Tolles, George Logan (New York: OUP, 1953).**

Frederick B. Tolles, Meeting House and Counting House (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1948).

 

SLAVERY AND SERVITUDE

Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998).

Kenneth L. Carroll, "George Fox and Slavery," Quaker History, (Fall 1997, pp. 16-25).

David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1966).

----------------------, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (OUP, 2nd edition, 1999).

Susan Klepp and Billy Smith. Eds., The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992)

Edgar J. McManus, Black Bondage in the North, (Syracuse University Press, 1973).

Gary B. Nash, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community 1720-1840 (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1988).**

Gary B. Nash and Jean R. Soderlund, Freedom By Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and its Aftermath (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).**

Sharon V. Salinger, "To Serve Well and Faithfully" Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987).

Richard B. Sheridan, Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1680-1834. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985)

Jean R. Soderlund, "Black Women in Colonial Philadelphia," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, (January 1983, pp. 50-63).

Jean R. Soderlund, "Material for Integrating African Americans into the Interpretation at PM," unpublished MS on file at Pennsbury Manor.

Jean R. Soderlund, Quakers & Slavery: A Divided Spirit. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985)**

Darold D. Wax, "The Demand for Slave Labor in Colonial PA," PA History, (34, 1967).

 

WOMEN'S HISTORY

Margaret Hope Bacon, Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America. (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986).

Catherine Blecki and Karin Wulf, eds., Milcah Martha Moore’s Book (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997).

Mary Maples Dunn, "Latest Light on Women of Light," in Elisabeth Potts Brown and Susan Mosher Stuard, eds., Witnesses for Change: Quaker Women Over Three Centuries. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989), pp. 71-85.

Jean R. Soderlund, "Women in Eighteenth Century Pennsylvania: Toward a Model of Diversity, PMHB, (Volume CXV, Number 2, April 1991), pp. 163-183.

Jean R. Soderlund, "Women's Authority in Pennsylvania and New Jersey Quaker Meetings, 1680-1760," William & Mary Quarterly 1987. 44:722-49.

Robert V. Wells, "Family Size and Fertility Control in Eighteenth-Century America: A Study of Quaker Families," Population Studies 1971, 25:73-82.

Robert V. Wells, "Quaker Marriage Patterns in a Colonial Perspective," William & Mary Quarterly 1972, 29:415-42.

QUAKERISM

J. William Frost, A Perfect Freedom: Religious Liberty in Pennsylvania. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

J. William Frost, The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the Society of Friends. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1973).

Barry Levy, Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).**

Gary B. Nash, Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, new edition, 1993).**

Richard Vann, Social Development of English Quakerism, 1655-1755 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969).

Anne Verplanck and Emma Lapsansky, eds., Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720-1920, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).**

Michael Zuckerman, Friends and Neighbors: Group Life in America's First Plural Society. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,1982).**

 

 

NATIVE AMERICANS

    James Axtell, "Colonial America Without the Indians," in Axtell, After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. (New York, 1988) 222-243.

    Marshall J. Becker, "Hannah Freeman: An Eighteenth-Century Lenape Living and Working Among Colonial Farmers," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1990) 114:249-269.

    Marshall J. Becker, "Legends About Hannah Freeman ("Indian Hannah"): Squaring the Written Accounts with the Oral Tradition," Keystone Folklore (1992) 4(2):1-24.

    Jay Custer, "Hannah Freeman’s Baskets," Pennsylvania Archaeologist. (1998) 68(1):34-46.

    Eric Hinderaker, Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800. (New York and Cambridge, 1997).

    Francis Jennings, "Incident at Tulpehocken," Pennsylvania History, (October 1968) 35(4):335-55.

    Francis Jennings, The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies. (New York & London, 1984).**

    Francis Jennings, Empire of Fortune (New York, 1988).**

    Francis Jennings, "The Delaware Interregnum," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, (April 1965) 89(2):174-98.

    Barry C. Kent, Susquehanna's Indians. (Harrisburg, PA, 1984).

    James Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier. (New York & London, 1999)**

    Daniel K. Richter, "A Framework for Pennsylvania Indian History," Pennsylvania History. (1990) 57:236-261.

    Daniel K. Richter, Facing East From Indian Country, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2002)**

    Timothy Shannon, "Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indians Fashion," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, (January 1996) 53(1)13-42.

    Ian K. Steele, "Exploding Colonial American History: Amerindian, Atlantic, and Global Perspectives," Reviews in American History, (1998) 26:70-95.

    Thomas J. Sugrue, "The Peopling and Depeopling of Early Pennsylvania: Indians and Colonists, 1680-1720," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, (January 1992) 116(1):1-29.

    Alden T. Vaughan, general ed., Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789: (Washington, D.C., University Publications of America, 1979), Vol. I: Pennsylvania and Delaware Treaties, 1629-1737; Volume II: Pennsylvania Treaties, 1737-1756.**

    Anthony F. C. Wallace, King of the Delawares: Teedyuscung, 1700-1763. (Reprint, Salem, NH, 1970).

    Anthony F. C. Wallace, "Women, Land, and Society: Three Aspects of Aboriginal Delaware Life," Pennsylvania Archaeologist, 17:1-4 (1947) 1-35.

    Wallace, Paul. Conrad Weiser (Lewisburg, PA: Wennawoods Publishing, 1996. First published 1945)

 

JAMES LOGAN, THE ENLIGHTENMENT, IDEAS AND BOOKS

Leonard W. Labaree, ed., The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964).

Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (Vintage Books, 1993)**

Mary K. Geiter, William Penn (Harlow: Longman, 2000)**

Fiering, Norman, Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981) – which has much about the eighteenth century, in spite of its title.**

Daniel Walker Howe, Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996).

Lawrence E. Klein, Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness: Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century England (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Ned C. Landsman, From Colonials to Provincials: American Thought and Culture 1689-1760 (New York: Twayne, 1997).**

Ned C. Landsman, Scotland and its First American Colony, 1680-1760 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).

Mary Lou Lustig, Robert Hunter, 1666-1734: New York's Augustan Statesman (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1983).

Henry May, The Enlightenment in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976).**

Roy Porter, The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1991).

Raymond P. Stearns, Science in the British Colonies of America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970)

Edwin Wolf 2nd, ed., The Library of James Logan of Philadelphia, 1674-1751, (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1974)**

 

SOCIAL HISTORY, COMMUNITY AND FAMILY

Karin Calvert, Children in the House: the Material Culture of Early Childhood, 1600-1900 (Boston, 1992)**

Paul Clemens and Lucy Simler, "Rural Labor and the Farm Household in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1820" in Work and Labor in Early America, ed. Stephen Innes (Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Univ. of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1988)

Simon, Tinkcom and Tinckom, Historic Germantown (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1955)**

Stephanie G. Wolf, Urban Village, (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980)**

Stephanie G. Wolf, As Various as Their Land, (Harper Perennial Library, 1994)**

 

LANDSCAPE

James Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990)**

"Bartram’s Garden Catalogue of North American Plants" issue of the Journal of Garden History (Spring 1996) 16:1

Simon Baatz, Venerate the Plough: A History of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1785-1985 (Philadelphia: PSPA, 1985)**

Stevenson Fletcher, The Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1785-1955 (Philadelphia: PSPA, 1959)

Neil Harris, The Artist in American Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966).

Frederick Tolles, "George Logan and the Agricultural Revolution" Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (December 1951) 95(6):589-596

Barbara Wells, Sarudy's Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805 (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998)**

Carl R. Woodward, Ploughs and Politicks; Charles Read of New Jersey and His Notes on Agriculture (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1941)

 

EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD

Susan Branson, These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania, 2001)**

Susan Davis, Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986)

Simon Newman, Parades and Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early National Republic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)

David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1997)

Ann Withington, Toward a More Perfect Union: Virtue and Formation of American Republics (Oxford: OUP, 1991)

 

MATERIAL CULTURE STUDIES

Barbara G. Carson, Ambitious Appetites: Dining, Behavior, and Patterns of Consumption in Federal Washington (Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects Press, 1990)

Cary Carson, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert, Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century (Charlottesville: United States Capitol Historical Society and the University Press of Virginia, 1994)**

Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (New York: Basic Books, 1984)

Bernard L. Herman, The Stolen House (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992)

Ian Hodder, Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991 second edition)

Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute for Early American History and Culture, 1982)

David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)

Annik Pardailhé-Galabrun, The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy and Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991 translation of 1988 edition)

Robert Blair St. George, Conversing by Signs: The Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998)

David S. Shields, Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute for Early American History and Culture, 1997)**

Susan Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993)

Dell Upton, Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (New York: The Architectural History Foundation, 1986, republished by Yale University Press)

 

ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIORS

Burton, Neil and Dan Cruikshank, Life in the Georgian City, (1990).**

Nicholas Cooper, Houses of the Gentry, 1480-1680, (London: Yale UP, 1999).**

Mark Girouard, Life in the English Country House, (London and New Haven: Yale UP, 1978)**

Graham Hood, The Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, A Cultural Study, (Colonial Williamsburg, 1992)**

Virginia and Lee McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses, (New York: Random House, 1984)**

Daniel D. Reiff, Small Georgian Houses in England and Virginia, Origins and Development through the 1750s, (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1986)**

Mark Reinberger and Elizabeth McLean, "Isaac Norris’s Fairhill: Architecture, Landscape and Quaker Ideals in a Philadelphia Colonial Country Seat," Winterthur Portfolio, 32(4) (Winter 1997)**

Charles Saumarez Smith, Eighteenth-Century Decoration, (Harry N. Abrams, 1993)**

Peter Thornton, Authentic Décor (Seven Dials, 2001)**

 

DECORATIVE ARTS

Rosemary Krill and Pauline Eversmann, Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860: A Handbook for Interpreters, (AltaMira Press, 2000).**

Laura Keim Stutman, "Furnishing Stenton: Quaker Grandeur in Philadelphia," Philadelphia Antiques Show Catalog, (2002) pp. 50-80.

Laura Keim Stutman, "Two Philadelphia Shadow-box Grottoes," The Magazine Antiques, March 2002, pp. 104-107.

Philip D. Zimmerman, "Philadelphia Case Furniture at Stenton," The Magazine Antiques, May 2002, pp. 94-101.

Philip D. Zimmerman, "Eighteenth-century Chairs at Stenton," The Magazine Antiques, May 2003.

 

INTERPRETATION

Barbara Abramoff Levy, Sandra Mackenzie Lloyd, and Susan Porter Schreiber, Great Tours!: Thematic Tours and Guide Training for Historic Sites, (New York: AltaMira Press, 2001)**

FOODWAYS

Sara Paston-Williams, The Art of Dining: A History of Dining and Eating, (Harry N. Abrams, 1994)

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