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"The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania" with Judith Ridner

10 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Scots Irish were one of early Pennsylvania's largest non-English immigrant groups. They were stereotyped as frontier ruffians and Indian haters. I...

"The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases" with Michael Capuzzo

27 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor and lothario who speaks to the dead, and an eccentr...

"High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly" with Donald Spoto

20 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In just seven years–from 1950 through 1956–Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in eleven movies. From the principled Am...

"African Americans in Pennsylvania: Above Ground and Underground" with Charles Blockson

13 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Charles L. Blockson, one of the leading authorities on African American history, has compiled one of the nation's largest private collections of black...

"ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer" with Scott McCartney

07 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

John Mauchly and Presper Eckert designed and built the first digital, electronic computer. Mauchly and Eckert met by chance in 1941 at the University ...

"Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg" with Christopher Ogden

30 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The father fled East Prussia to escape the 1880s pogroms and, as a penniless immigrant boy, hawked newspapers on the streets of Chicago. The son, who ...

"Gettysburg Eddie: The Story of Eddie Plank" with Lawrence Knorr

23 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Born in Gettysburg, PA only a dozen years after the bloody Civil War battle, Eddie Plank grew up on a farm and was a late-bloomer. By his early twenti...

"N.C. Wyeth: A Biography" with David Michaelis

17 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

His name summons up our earliest images of the beloved books we read as children. His illustrations for Scribner's Illustrated Classics (Treasure Isla...

"I Am Regina and Moon of Two Dark Horses" with Sally Keehn

09 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The cabin door crashes open-and in a few minutes Regina's life changes forever. Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother, burn their Pennsylvan...

"The Indian World of George Washington" with Colin Calloway

25 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this new biography, Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time--Shingas, Tana...

"Road to Rust" with Dale Richard Perelman

19 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As the twentieth century dawned on western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, the region's steel industry faced a struggle for unionism. Unionists like Ph...

"The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House" with Daniel Mark Epstein

11 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In The Loyal Son, award-winning historian Daniel Mark Epstein throws the spotlight on one of the more enigmatic aspects of Franklin's biography: his c...

"Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right" with Michael Smerconish

04 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Talk show host and columnist Michael Smerconish has been chronicling local, state, and national events for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philade...

"Powwowing in Pennsylvania: Healing Rituals of the Dutch Country" with Patrick Donmoyer

22 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This cultural exploration offers an unparalleled presentation of Pennsylvania's ritual healing traditions known as powwowing or Braucherei in Pennsylv...

"Maine Roads to Gettysburg" with Tom Huntington

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone knows about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and his 20th Maine Regiment, but there's much more to the story of Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg....

"Hinsonville's Heroes: Black Civil War Soldiers in Chester County, PA" with Cheryl Renée Gooch

30 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The free black community of Hinsonville sent its sons to serve the Union when called on. As members of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteers, brot...

"Looking Up: From the ABA to the NBA, the WNBA to the NCAA" with Jim O'Brien

23 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In April 2003, Jim O'Brien was the first Pittsburgher inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame. This book is a celebration of 60th anniv...

"Prohibition Pittsburgh" with Richard Gazarik

16 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When Prohibition hit the Steel City, it created a level of violence and corruption residents had never witnessed. Illegal producers ran stills in kitc...

"The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist" with Marcus Rediker

10 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who dem...

"The Senate Will Come To Order!" with Sen. Robert Jubelirer

26 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sen. Robert Jubelirer was first elected to the Pennsylvania Senate in 1974. Watergate was a deep wound on voter psyche, and Jubelirer was the lone Rep...

"Fire on the Mountain: An American Odyssey" with Walt Koken

12 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Walt Koken, the founding member of the Highwoods Stringband, reminisces about traveling and playing old time music in the 1960's and 1970's, and the p...

"Lair of the Lion: A History of Beaver Stadium" with Lee Stout and Harry H. West

26 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Lee Stout and engineering professor Harry H. West show how Penn State's Beaver Stadium came to be, including a look at its predecessors, "Ol...

"Calder: The Conquest of Time" with Jed Perl

19 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him a...

"Pennsylvania Scrapple" with Amy Strauss

29 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

An essential food in Mid-Atlantic kitchens for hundreds of years, scrapple is the often-overlooked king of breakfast meats. Developed by German settle...

"How The French Saved America" with Tom Shachtman

16 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

To the rebelling colonies, French assistance made the difference between looming defeat and eventual triumph. Even before the Declaration of Independe...

"Death of an Assassin" with Ann Marie Ackermann

18 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee's position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape pro...

"Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form" with Kirsten Jensen and Shawn Waldron

27 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Philadelphia native Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) is recognized as one of the founding figures of American modernism. Initially trained in impressionist...

"Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father" with Thomas Kidd

13 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century Amer...

"George Washington: A Life in Books" with Kevin Hayes

07 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Based on a comprehensive amount of research at the Library of Congress, the collections at Mount Vernon, and rare book archives scattered across the c...

"Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect" with Audrey Lewis and Christine Podmaniczky

30 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This major retrospective catalogue explores the impact of time and place on the work of beloved American painter Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009). While pre...

"The LaPorte Inheritance: An Historical Novel of French Azilum" with Deborah deBilly dit Courville

23 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A mostly forgotten episode of US history is brought to life in fascinating detail by historian and author Deborah deBilly dit Courville. Working from ...

"Gettysburg Rebels" with Tom McMillan

09 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"Gettysburg Rebels" is the gripping true story of five young men who grew up in Gettysburg, moved south to Virginia in the 1850s, joined the Confedera...

"John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad" with Kathleen Waters Sander

02 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of B&O Railroad President John W. Garrett and the B&O's plan to build a rail line from Baltim...

"Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West" with William Hogeland

18 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the newly independent United States savored its victory and hoped for a great future. And yet the republic s...

"Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge" with Erica Wagner

12 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"Chief Engineer" tells the story of Washington Roebling, the engineer known for building one of the most iconic American structures, the Brooklyn Brid...

"The Slide: Leyland, Bonds, & The Star-Crossed Pittsburgh Pirates" with Richard Peterson and Stephen Peterson

24 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In the deciding game of the 1992 National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves, the Pittsburgh Pirates suffered the most dramatic and...

"Pennsylvania: A Military History" with Barbara Gannon and Christian Keller

17 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Founded in 1682 by a society that had no military, eschewed violence as a means of solving conflicts, and tolerated a wide variety of religions, Penns...

"Pittsburgh Drinks: A History of Cocktails, Nightlife & Bartending Tradition" with Cody McDevitt and Sean Enright

19 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pittsburgh's drinking culture is a story of its people: vibrant, hardworking and innovative. During Prohibition, the Hill District became a center of ...

"Silk Stockings and Socialism" with Sharon McConnell-Sidorick

12 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding a...

"Keystone Fly Fishing" with Henry Ramsay, Dave Rothrock and Len Lichvar

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The definitive, up-to-date guide to Pennsylvania's best fly fishing by regional experts and guides. Includes over 200 rivers and streams across the st...

"Sesqui!: Greed, Graft, and the Forgotten World's Fair of 1926" with Thomas Keels

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 1916, department store magnate and Grand Old Philadelphian John Wanamaker launched plans for a Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition in his ho...

"Embattled Freedom: Chronicle of a Fugitive-Slave Haven in the Wary North" with Jim Remsen

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Rural Northeastern Pennsylvania was a bucolic farming region in the 1800s—but political tensions churned below the surface. When a group of fugitive...

"The Life of Louis Kahn: You Say to Brick" with Wendy Lesser

30 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Wendy Lesser's "You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn" is a major exploration of the architect's life and work. Born in Estonia 1901 and brought to...

"Africans in New Sweden: The Untold Story" with Abdullah Muhammad

15 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Abdullah R. Muhammad examines a previously little-known and virtually untold aspect of Delaware's history—the hidden role of Africans in t...

"Last Don Standing: The Secret Life of Mob Boss Ralph Natale" with Larry McShane and Dan Pearson

18 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

As the last Don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state's evidence, provides an insider's perspective on the mafi...

"Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family" with Jennifer Lin

11 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Veteran journalist Jennifer Lin takes readers from remote nineteenth-century mission outposts to Philadelphia and to the thriving house churches and c...

"Frontier Country" with Patrick Spero

04 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In "Frontier Country," Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the ...

"French and Indian War: War in the Peaceable Kingdom: The Kittanning Raid of 1756" with Brady Crytzer

27 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On the morning of September 8, 1756, a band of about three hundred volunteers of a newly created Pennsylvania militia led by Lt. Col. John Armstrong c...

"The Martin Guitar Archives" with Dick Boak

20 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Martin Archives is a unique inside look into C.F. Martin & Co.'s reign as America's oldest and most revered guitarmaker – viewed through a selec...

"Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky and the Crisis in Penn State Athletics: Wounded Lions" with Ronald A. Smith

13 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In Wounded Lions, acclaimed sport historian and longtime Penn State professor Ronald A. Smith heavily draws from university archives to answer the How...

"A Civil War Captain and His Lady" with Gene Barr

08 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

More than 150 years ago, 27-year-old Irish immigrant Josiah Moore met 19-year-old Jennie Lindsay, a member of one of Peoria, Illinois's most prominent...

"The Life & Songs of Stephen Foster" with JoAnne O'Connell

28 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster offers an engaging reassessment of the life, politics, and legacy of the misunderstood father of American music. ...

"Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge" with Erica Armstrong Dunbar

23 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the ...

"The Politics of Black Citizenship" with Andrew Diemer

13 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, "The Politics of Black Citizenship" shows that the antebellum eff...

"Playing Through the Whistle" with S.L. Price

30 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In "Playing Through the Whistle," celebrated sportswriter S. L. Price tells the story of a remarkable place, its people, its players, and, through it,...

"Mission: Jimmy Stewart & the Fight for Europe" with Robert Matzen

19 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On a Saturday in March 1941, Jimmy Stewart, America's boy-next-door actor, left Hollywood behind and took the oath of service in the United States Arm...

"The Framers' Coup" with Michael J. Klarman

20 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Framers' Coup narrates how the Framers' clashing interests shaped the Constitution--and American history itself. The Philadelphia convention could...

"Running The Rails" with James Wolfinger

12 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In "Running the Rails," James Wolfinger uses the history of Philadelphia's sprawling public transportation system to explore how labor relations shift...

"Slavery & The Underground Railroad in South Central PA" with Cooper H. Wingert

12 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Much like the rest of the nation, South Central Pennsylvania struggled with slavery. The institution lingered locally for more than fifty years, altho...

"Labor Unrest in Scranton" with Margo L. Azzarelli & Marne Azzarelli

28 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

On an August morning in 1877, a dispute over wages exploded between miners and coal company owners. A furious mob rushed down Lackawanna Avenue only t...

"The Carnival Campaign" with Ronald Shafer

01 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Pulitzer Prize–nominated former Wall Street Journal reporter Ronald G. Shafer tells the colorful story of the election battle between sitting presid...

"Benjamin Franklin in London" with George Goodwin

19 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

For more than one-fifth of his life, Benjamin Franklin lived in London. He dined with prime ministers, members of parliament, even kings, as well as w...

"Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War" with Paul Kahan

06 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln's secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

"The Second Day at Gettysburg" with David Shultz & Scott Mingus

19 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Based upon a faulty early-morning reconnaissance, General Robert E. Lee decided to attack up the Emmitsburg Road in an effort to collapse the left fla...

"The First Congress" with Fergus Bordewich

28 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The First Congress tells the dramatic story of the two remarkable years when George Washington, James Madison, and their dedicated colleagues struggle...

"Sickles at Gettysburg" with James Hessler

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Sickles at Gettysburg" No individual who fought at Gettysburg was more controversial, both personally and professionally, than Major General Daniel...

"Shop Pomeroy's First" with Michael Lisicky

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

For over one hundred years, Pomeroy's was a beloved household name for the shoppers of central and eastern Pennsylvania. Founded in 1876, the store be...

"Semisweet" with Johnny O' Brien

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Milton Hershey School is the richest and wealthiest K-12 residential school in the world. Its $12 billion trust fund, financed by sales of the ico...

"Seeking the Greatest Good" with Char Miller

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Char Miller chronicles the history of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies and describes its iconic national historic site, Grey Towers, off...

"Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in PA" with Andrew M. Wilson, Daniel W. Brauning and Robert S. Mulvihill

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

"Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in PA" Twenty years after the first Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania was published, the Second Atlas of Bree...

"Saint Katharine" with Cordelia Frances Biddle

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

When Katharine Drexel was born in 1858, her grandfather, financier Francis Martin Drexel, had a fortune so vast he was able to provide a loan of sixty...

"Roads to Gettysburg" with Brad Gottfried

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

"Roads to Gettysburg" The men of the Union and Confederate armies experienced a mix of emotions during Robert E. Lee's first phase of the Gettysbur...

"The Return of George Washington" with Edward Larson

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important—yet almost always overlooked—chapter of George Washington's life,...

"Retreat from Gettysburg" with Kent Masterson Brown

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

"Retreat from Gettysburg" Kent Masterson Brown's "Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign" offers the first comprehe...

"The Quiet Don" with Matt Birkbeck

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Secretive—even reclusive—Russell Bufalino quietly built his organized crime empire in the decades between Prohibition and the Carter presidency. H...

"The Quartet" with Joseph Ellis

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this Continent a n...

"The Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia, Second Edition" with David Finoli & Bill Ranier

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Pittsburgh Pirates have one of the most storied histories in the annals of baseball. The Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia captures these fabulous t...

"Pickett's Charge in History and Memory" with Carol Reardon

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

"Pickett's Charge in History and Memory" If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its ...

"The Philadelphia Nativist Riots" with Kenneth Milano

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The outskirts of Philadelphia seethed with tension in the spring of 1844. By May 6, the situation between the newly arrived Irish Catholics and member...

"Philadelphia Freedoms" with Michael Awkward

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Awkward's Philadelphia Freedoms captures the disputes over the meanings of racial politics and black identity during the post-King era in the ...

"The Pennsylvania Reserves in the Civil War" with Uzal Ent

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Until its soldiers mustered out of service in mid–1864, the Pennsylvania Reserve Division was one of only a few one-state divisions in the Union arm...

"Paterno Legacy: Enduring Lessons from the Life and Death of My Father" with Jay Paterno

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This biography of Joe Paterno by his son Jay is an honest and touching look at the life and legacy of a beloved coaching legend. Jay Paterno paints a ...

"On the Edge of Freedom" with David Smith

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

"On the Edge of Freedom" In "On the Edge of Freedom," David Smith breaks new ground by illuminating the unique development of antislavery sentiment...

"Native Americans in the Susquehanna River Valley, Past and Present" with David Minderhout

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This first volume in the new Stories of the Susquehanna Valley series describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key cr...

"Murder in the Stacks" with David DeKok

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the ...

"Mr. President" with Harlow Giles Unger

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Although the framers gave the president little authority, Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of his successors. To e...

"Mob Files" with George Anastasia

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

For more than 25 years as a reporter with the Philadelphia Inquirer George Anastasia has made tracking the American Mafia his regular beat, writing in...

"The Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes" with Walt Koken & Clare Milliner

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

"Old-Time" music could be loosely described as that body of music containing fiddle tunes, banjo tunes, ballads, and ensemble pieces in various instru...

"Making Good Neighbors" with Abigail Perkiss

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African Americans o...

"Making Ideas Matter" with Dwight Evans

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Making Ideas Matter is a primer on mobilizing political power to achieve enlightened goals in a democracy. This is a book about how good politicians c...

"Louis I. Kahn" with Charles Dagit

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Few people in the history of art and architecture have planted a seed of inspiration that grew to become a towering oak of lasting influence. There ar...

"Lost Triumph" with Tom Carhart

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

"Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg and Why It Failed" Conventional wisdom holds that General Robert E. Lee risked everything at Gettysbur...

"Liberty's First Crisis" with Charles Slack

09 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the...

"Lenape Country" with Jean Soderlund

09 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of the multiethnic society of the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Af...

"The Last to Fall" with Richard Fulton & James Rada

09 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

There's more than one way to fight the Civil War The 1863 Battle of Gettysburg resulted in horrific slaughter that ultimately ended the Confederate in...

"La Citadelle" with Leanard Bethel

09 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Layle Lane was an educator, a social activist, and a political leader. She was a key organizer of the first march on Washington, D.C., which led to th...

"The Ku Klux Klan in Western Pennsylvania, 1921-1928" with John M. Craig

09 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania's twenty-five western-most counties, where the state organization enjoyed greatest numeric...

"Keystone Corruption" with Brad Bumsted

09 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Keystone Corruption: A Pennsylvania Insider s View of a State Gone Wrong traces the cyclical nature of misconduct in Pennsylvania government over the ...

"Just Tell Me I Can't" with Jamie Moyer

09 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Long-time fans of the National Pastime have known Moyer's name for more than 25 years. That's because he's been pitching in the bigs for all those yea...

"James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War" with John Quist and Michael Birkner

09 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

"James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War" As James Buchanan took office in 1857, the United States found itself at a crossroads. Dissolution...